| Description | Pencil sketch of a seated boy in a long, buttoned [robe or coat], with a book or folded sheet music in his lap. Charles Lamb was a student at Christ's Hospital, a school founded to educate the poor children of London in 1552 by King Edward VI; it is the oldest and most famous of the so-called bluecoat schools, named for the distinctive Tudor-style coats that form part of their uniform. |