Geography, natural history and useful arts for the instruction of children. Colour lithographs in form of scroll by the Home and Colonial Infant School Society.

approximately 27 prints : lithographs laid down on cloth ; cloth 994.5 x 45 cm

Wellcome Collection 47386i

Includes: map of the world; map of each continent; map of England and Wales; map of Scotland; map of Ireland; costumes of different nations ("for infant schools"); agriculture (3 prints); natural history (2 prints); insects; reptiles; vegetable kingdom (4 prints); mineral kingdom; whale and use of whale parts ("Drawn on stone by J.R. Barfoot from a drawing by W. Raymond, Master Mariner"); trades and professions; sources of manufactures, animal and vegetable; insects, their beauties and uses; geography for infant schools and nurseries; sources of food; different kinds of food

The Home and Colonial Infant School Society was founded in 1836 to popularise the methods of the Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)