School for Honour

Thomas Rowlandson|James Brydges Willyams|Thomas Rowlandson

May 10, 1802 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

In this sixth print of a group of eight, a young dandy duels in the countryside, looking through his monocle to see whether he hit his target. At left, a older man falls backward after being shot, near a doctor who shelters below a bank with implements at the ready. Rowlandson etched this set after drawings by Willyams, a university-educated lieutenant-colonel from Cornwall who also supplied supporting satirical text under the pseudonym Joel McCringer. Rowlandson's characteristic elegance does not disguise the dark human impulses being satirized. Modern education, it is suggested, does little to teach self-control, wisdom or empathy.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|James Brydges Willyams|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

May 10, 1802

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959