The sister sitting on the box & driving away with the doctor [drawing].

Record ID: 
325178
Accession number: 
MA 473.5
Author: 
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published: 
undated
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 drawing
Notes: 

On the reverse of the drawing there is a manuscript copy, in Thackeray's hand, of lines from Act 3, Scene 2 of "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" by William Shakespeare.
Part of a collection of Thackeray drawings; items in the collection are described in individual records.

Summary: 

Being a pen and ink drawing of a woman and a man inside a horse drawn cart; the woman is sitting on a box; a man in the background leans on fence railings next to a signpost which says "Vale / of / Health."

Medium: 
pen and ink.
Dimensions: 
4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (114 x 185 mm)
Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Classification: