The Teacher is Coming Print by Emanuel Spitzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Spitzer
label: maker
content: Spitzer
notes: label: Description
content: A late 19th Century black and white print of students merrily misbehaving in a classroom, likely in a girls’ secondary school. The students are engaged in all sorts of hijinks until two burst through the door announcing that “the teacher is coming.”
label: Description
content: The artist is Emanuel Spitzer (1844–1919), a popular German genre painter. His portraits and domestic scenes continue to be sold in auctions today. This print was published circa 1880 by Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. of London.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0095.398
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.398
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 31.115 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 8 in x 10 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 26.67 cm