[Mr. Bowls Reading in the Kitchen] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Bowls Reading in the Kitchen]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Household employees; Reading; Men; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Mr. Bowls sits in a chair at the kitchen table, reading “Fire and the Frying Pan” aloud to his assistant, who sits opposite him, holding onto a jug. Through the door in the background, Mrs. Firkin is entering, holding a candle in front of her.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22818
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22818_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Household employees; Reading; Men; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters