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Title: [Letter Carrier]
Subject: Boys; Letters; Angels; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; Letter writing
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A small boy in a uniform and triangular hat with a pair of tiny angel wings holds a packet of sealed correspondence out to a doorway. He has a bag in his other hand and more letters tucked under his arm.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22758
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22758_OBJ.jpg