[Captain Swankey] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Captain Swankey]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Soldiers; Men; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Captain Swankey of the Body Guard stands with one knee on a wooden chair and his hat on the ground, describing pig-sticking to Amelia Osborne, who sits on a sofa with a paper in her hand, looking amused. In the background, Major Dobbin has come upon them while walking past the room.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22448
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22448_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Soldiers; Men; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs