[Mr. Bowls Reading] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Bowls Reading]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Household employees; Reading; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Mr. Bowls sits in a chair at the kitchen table, reading 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:22376
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22376_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Household employees; Reading; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs