School for Honour
Etcher Thomas Rowlandson British
After James Brydges Willyams British
Publisher Thomas Rowlandson British
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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.
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