A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.

  • Heemskerck, Egbert van, active approximately 1700-1744.
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1700-1799
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35654i
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A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A notice on the left wall reads: "Monstrum horendum! Scribere cum dasho, cum ferrila non fera slasho, Risum teneatis amici." The phrase "risum tenatis amici" is a quotation from Horace, Ars poetica, v. 5, meaning "friends, could you suppress your laughter, i.e. if you saw a painting in wihich animal and human parts were combined, as in the present composition

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[London] : [publisher not identified]

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1 print : engraving ; image 33.6 x 29 cm

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Thus many senseless flogging fools, / Are teachers of our modern schooles; / Tho' void of learning, wit or parts, / Presume to teach the lib'ral arts: / Strange! that such asses should bestow / On others more than yet they know: / And such the madness of mankind, / We're fond of fools, to merit blind. E. Heermskerk invt. et pinxt. Toms sculpt.

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Wellcome Collection 35654i

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