[Vanity Fair Chapter I Historiated Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter I Historiated Initial]
Subject: Men, White; Men, Black; Carriages and carts; Household employees; Men; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Schools; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A coach drawn by two horses, driven by a coachman in a three-cornered hat. Beside him sits Sambo, the footman. On the right side of the image is the gate to Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, at which the coach has just arrived. In the background there are two trees and a building. In the top right of the image is the letter W, from “While”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22272
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22272_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Men, Black; Carriages and carts; Household employees; Men; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Schools; Fiction