1-155-839 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

February - Cutting Weather', 1839. A typical day at Dr Swishtail's Academy. Boys at their desks look on as the schoolmaster punishes a boy by flogging him with the birch. The biggest boy in class holds the victim on his back. Cartoon from The Comic Almanack for 1839 by George Cruikshank. (London, 1839).