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No. 2. The Lesson, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'

Greenaway, Kate, 1881, Publisher's print
No. 2. The Lesson, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
No. 2. The Lesson, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
No. 2. The Lesson, from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
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Item no
40019
Title
No. 2. The Lesson, an illustrated page from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
Description
An arrangement of sunflowers in various stages of flowering forms a headpiece to the page. Below in the body of the page is the music, the treble clef melody stave plus piano accompaniment. The words are:
'No. 2. The Lesson.

1. 2. } A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
W X Y Z....
1. Letters twenty-six you see
In this Alphabet to be;
Try and sing them all to me,
And then your lesson's said.

2. Letters twenty-six we see
In this Alphabet to be;
We have sung them perfectly,
And now our lesson's said.'

At the bottom right of the page is a tailpiece of a single sunflower.

Artist / maker
Date
1881
Size
24.8 x 21.0 cm
Location
Art and Design Library