Young boy in blue dress astride toy horse on wheels; young girl in orange dress admiring horse, she’s holding up a stick in her proper right hand.
The most important task assigned to the Victorian woman was bringing up her children. Education was a simple, narrowly focused processed that often emphasized gender roles as well as standards of right and wrong. Currier & Ives created a series of “parlor prints” that were suitable for a family audience as well as images that appealed to children. In Our Pony, a young boy is shown riding a toy horse while a young girl, in a dress, politely watches.
