[Lady Southdown] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Lady Southdown]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Lady Matilda Southdown, in her bed-gown and nightcap, carries a candlestick, a cup of medicine she has devised, and her favorite tracts through the doorway into Rebecca Crawley’s room.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23127
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23127_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Medicine; Sleepwear; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Sleep in literature