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品名（中）	私立学校
品名（英）	Private School
入馆年号	1959年，59.533.851(3)
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Thomas Rowlandson【1757 至 1827】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1802
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 10 1/16 英寸 × 13 英寸 (25.6 × 33 厘米) Plate: 8 15/16 × 10 13/16 英寸 (22.7 × 27.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	在八人一组的第二幅画中，小男孩围着一个鸟巢，两个准备向一只倒下的小鸡扔石头。他们被远处的校长忽视了，只有一个男孩似乎被同伴对蝴蝶的残忍吓坏了。威廉姆斯的相关文字也设计了这张照片，讽刺地暗示，残忍的孩子长大后会成为成功的成年人，文法学校的主要目的是摆脱他们的心软。作者兼设计师是一位来自康沃尔的受过大学教育的中校，他还以笔名乔尔·麦克林格（Joel McCringer）提供了支持性的讽刺文字。罗兰森（Rowlandson）蚀刻了这幅版画，他为人物注入了自己特有的优雅，这并不掩饰被讽刺的黑暗人类冲动。就像霍加斯的《残酷的第一阶段》一样，这个形象暗示着被允许虐待小动物的男孩长大后会做得更糟。
介绍（英）	In this second print of a group of eight, young boys surround a bird's nest and two prepare to throw stones at a fallen chick. They are ignored by a distant schoolmaster, and only one boy appears horrified by the cruelty that a companion shows to a butterfly. Related text by Willyams, who also designed the image, suggests satirically that cruel children will grow up to be sucessful adults and that the main purpose of grammar school is to rid them of soft-heartedness. The author-designer was a university-educated lieutenant-colonel from Cornwall who also supplied supporting satirical text under the pseudonym Joel McCringer. Rowlandson, who etched the print, imbues the figures with his own characteristic elegance which does not disguise the dark human impulses being satirized. Like Hogarth's "First Stage of Cruelty," the image implies that boys allowed to mistreat small creatures will grow up to do far worse.