Major Sugarplums
William Makepeace Thackeray
Wood engraving
c.1861
Illustration for Thackeray's own Vanity Fair
Passage illustrated: "She laughed one day when Major Sugarplums' cab drove up to Fulham, and he descended from it, bringing up a wooden horse, a drum, a trumpet, and other warlike toys, for little Georgy, who was scarcely six months old, and for whom the articles were entirely premature" (Chapter 35).
Image scanned by Gerald Ajam and captions by Tiaw Kay Siang and Sabrina Lim.