A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!! mb-code 2501240 'Melrose Abbey'

'Melrose Abbey'

Smith Square

Malcolm McPherson and Farquhar Shaw

A ship rides at anchor

South view of the Tower of London with boats and figures on the River Thames in the foreground

A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!! mb-code 2501240 'Melrose Abbey''A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!', 1815. Showing a pig in military uniform (General Sir Eyre Coote) standing on its hind legs and being birched by three Christ's Hospital boys. A woman is standing at the doorway with Sir William Curtis and Alderman Matthew Wood. Coote was dismissed from the army in scandalous circumstances after he was caught by the school nurse at the Christ's Hospital School flogging pupils and then being flogged by them