Why nurses think the air of Kensington gardens so wholesome Drawing

Record ID: 
283432
Accession number: 
MA 2011.22
Author: 
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).

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.
Dimensions: 
138 x 103 mm
Classification: