[The Gardener’s Wife] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Gardener’s Wife]
Subject: Women, White; Children; Boys; Household employees; Women; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Children in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: France; Europe
Description: The garden’s wife stands outside her house, with the cityscape in the distant background. In front of her is young Rawdon Crawley, to 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:22381
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22381_OBJ.jpg