A young woman reading an illicit love letter at a table in her room at a Finishing School for Girls. The principal stands at the door. A maid fixes the bed curtains behind her. Credulity. Handcoloured wood engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from W. H. Harrison’s The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside, Rudolph Ackermann, 19 Strand, London, 1831.

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