The School of Needlework. A Woman Teaches Young Women

Art Historical Context

This engraving by Battista Angolo del Moro depicts a woman instructing a group of young women in the art of needlework, a subject that reflects the everyday domestic education and skilled labor traditionally associated with women in earlier centuries. As a print, the work belongs to the accessible medium of reproductive graphics, allowing such scenes of instruction and community to reach wider audiences beyond the confines of private homes or elite circles. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, the piece entered the collection through the Harris Brisban...