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.

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

BIB_ID
325178
Accession number
MA 473.5
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
undated
Credit line
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.
4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (114 x 185 mm)
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
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.
Classification