[Vanity Fair Chapter LXI Inhabited Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter LXI Inhabited Initial]
Subject: Fireplaces; fictional works; Manners and customs; Fire in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: An unburning fireplace, with the kettle fallen onto the coals. On the mantle is a clock with two figures. A pair of slippers are abandoned in front of it, and on the wall to the side, the poker-holder is decorated with the letter T from “There”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22449
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22449_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Fireplaces; fictional works; Manners and customs; Fire in literature