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Description: | Children receiving instruction was a popular image with the Victorians, possibly because of their extraordinary social conscience. However, education in nineteenth-century England was not equal - not between the sexes, and not between the classes. A lady's education was taken, almost entirely, at home. There were boarding schools, but no university, and the studies were very different. She learned French, drawing, dancing, music, and the use of globes. If the school, or the governess, was interested in teaching any practical skills, she learned plain sewing as well as embroidery, and accounts.
Oil painting of a woman and child. The brunette woman wears a powder blue dress with a yellow pinstripe apron. She looks down at the cloth she is sewing. At her side a child sits reading a book. At the woman's feet runs a chick, closely followed by a chicken. The figures are framed with green trees and purple and red flowers. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Flowers Chickens (birds) Fine arts Oil painting Women Oil Paintings Sewing Children Victorian period Leisure Paintings Dresses People Art collections | Temporal: | 1805 - 1865
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | WITHERINGTON; William Frederick (1785 - 1865) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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