[Mr. Bowls and his Assistant] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Bowls and his Assistant]
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 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:22577
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22577_OBJ.jpg