[Captain MacMurdo and Rawdon Crawley] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Captain MacMurdo and Rawdon Crawley]
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Dueling; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Dueling in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Captain MacMurdo lies in bed in his room, surrounded by boxing, sporting, and dancing pictures. Rawdon Crawley sits backwards in a wooden chair next to his bed, looking gloomy. He has come to ask Captain MacMurdo to act as his second for a duel with Lord Steyne.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23159
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23159_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Dueling; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Dueling in literature