[Little Rawdon’s Nurse] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Little Rawdon’s Nurse]
Subject: Women, White; Children; Boys; Household employees; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Children in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: France; Europe
Description: The garden’s wife stands outside her ivy-covered house, with the cityscape in the distant background. In front of her is young Rawdon Crawley, for whom she is the nurse, making mud pies in the dirt. Behind a low gate in the doorway of the house are two other young boys, either her own sons or other children over whom she is watching.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22583
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22583_OBJ.jpg