My daughter has a headache and can't come for her lesson

Prittie, Edwin John (1879-1963)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1910

Technique / Medium:

pen and ink

Place of creation:

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States)

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Description

Magazine caption: This cartoon is a kind of a daily tragedy for teachers. The teacher works largely upon the enthusiasm of his pupils. When he finds, that after all his work, his pupil is willing upon the least pretense to sacrifice a lesson for the pleasure of going to the theatre or to a vaudeville show, do you wonder that the teacher is discouraged? The pupil’s headache is too severe for Czerny, Chopin or Godard, but she can watch a trained baboon try to keep his equilibrium on roller skates without any noticeable distress. All sensible teachers make it a strict rule to oblige the pupil to pay for all lessons except those lost through protracted illness.

Iconclass

48C7211
musician training pupils, music-lesson

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299]

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Notes

Published as one of the Etude Educational Cartoons (vol.28, no.5, May 1910 issue, page 337).

RIdIM record id

4675