. 'No one to sit or stand' can be read as 'Rules' -- an allusion to Herkomer's statement 'Stand by your work', as well as to his authoritarian way to run his school. The broom tagged „made by myself“, the collection of rules in professor's left pocket and the beggar's hat complete the 1883. not quoted, undecipherable [to uploader], for sure a Punch caricaturist. 276 Herkomer's School of Art 1883 (Punch)

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