A l'ecole Braille [At the Braille School]

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Artist Sabattier, L.
Artist2 Tilly, E.
Date 1897
Description Disbound pages with 4 illustrations (2 on each page) of students at a reading lesson, basket making, working in the brush shop, and attending a natural history lesson at the school for the blind at Saint Mandé, which opened in France in 1883. Includes text, in French, written by Albert Montheuil. The signatures of both L. Sabbatier and E. Tilly appear on the brush making and basket making illustrations; the former's signature is also on the natural history illustration.
Illustrations in: L'Illustration, September 18, 1897, issue no. 2847, pages 223-224.
Museum has two copies.
Dimensions H-15.5 W-11.25 inches
Dimension notes Dimensions for the pages on which prints appear.
Medium Paper
Object ID 2006.22.4
Object Name Illustration
Provenance/History Purchased by the museum from a collector of early prints.
Signed Name L. Sabattier; L. S.; E. Tilly
Search Terms Institut le Val Mandé (France)
Subjects Basket making
Blind
Education
Reading
Science
Vocational education
Schools for the blind and visually handicapped
France
Title A l'ecole Braille [At the Braille School]
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Last modified on: April 02, 2010