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Rejlander, Oscar
English (b. Sweden, 1813-1875)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Young boy standing by ornate carved chair
PUBLISHED TITLE: A ragged-school boy

ca. 1860
albumen print
18.0 x 13.8 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 8809
72:0249:0025

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Jones, Edgar Yoxall. --Father of Art Photography. O.G. Rejlander 1813-1875.-- Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. p. 82.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in ink) "photo Rejlander Wolverhampton 1860" Mounted on the verso is a photomechanical reproduction of this photograph, from the "Picture Post", August 19, 1939, with the printed inscription: "A Ragged School Boy in 1860: Before State Education was introduced. It was children like this that stirred the hearts of Dickens, Shaftesbury, and Dr. Barnardo. In 1844, the Ragged Schools had been started by the Ragged School Union. Sixteen years later, this was the type of child they handled. Children was still working 12 hour

NOTES: Cataloged 11/96, MAP. cont' inscription on verso: "... 12 hours a day in mines and factories and it was not until 1870 that the Elementary Education Bill was passed".

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ragged-school boy
artifact, carved chair

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