Occupation title source   Planteur de tabac
Occupation title (english) Tobacco Grower
Hiscode 62290
Description of Image In a classroom, a bearded schoolmaster, wearing a cap, sits in a chair behind a table with a lectern. The teacher leans forward to hear a young boy recite his lesson. The boy stands at the teacher's desk pointing to words in a book. The schoolmaster clenches a switch of birch rods in his right hand, clearly intimidating the young student. To the left, three other students are seated. One reads a book and watches the exchange between the teacher and student; a second has turned to talk to a student behind him. The wooden writing boxes and leather sheaths for quill pens hang on the wall behind t...
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Gender Male
Title of the image Fabrique du Tabac II
Subtitle Oeconomie rustique
Translation (English) Tobacco
Language source French
Country source France
Date of creation 1763-1777
Medium Plate
Collection name Diderot
Provenance D. Diderot & J. Le Rond d`Alembert eds, Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris 1763-1777 & 1783-87.
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