Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Why nurses think the air of Kensington gardens so wholesome [drawing].

BIB_ID
283432
Accession number
MA 2011.22
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
[18--?]
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
The drawing is signed with a pair of spectacles, an image Thackeray includes with his signature in other items in this collection (see MA 2011.2).
Part of the Bradbury album, a scrapbook of letters, sketches, drawings, prints, photographs, and printed ephemera. Significant items in the album are described in 27 individual records (MA 2011.1-27).
138 x 103 mm
Summary
Drawing of a nurse and an officer seated on a bench in a park. The young nurse is holding a baby and looking coyly at the officer, who holds a cane to his mouth and has his cap set jauntily to one side.
Medium
Watercolor over ink on paper.
Classification