Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

C K *

Subjects:

Mathematics, Domestic Economy

    Shows a 'Studious Lodger', standing near a table, in conversation with his landlady, Mrs Priggins. Pointing, with a knife, to a plate of meat he tells Mrs Priggins that if she had a better understanding of mathematics she would 'readily comprehend how impossible it is that this steak which I sent from table last night a rectangular parallelogram, is now an irregular pentagon!!'.