Watercolor painting, "Interior of a Museum". Women in complicated complicated clothing admire (or are bored by) various sculptures on display in an ornate museum space.

🚨PRIMARY SOURCE ALERT: an excerpt from Maria Edgeworth's "field tested" educational treatise, "Practical Education".

𝗗𝗼 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗼𝘁
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📸: Eugène-Louis Lami/Metropolitan Museum of Art

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