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

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter V Historiated Initial]
Subject: Boys; Combat; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Two figures are depicted on a backdrop of the letter C from “Cuff”. The figure on the left is a boy with a toy sword and tall newspaper hat, riding a rocking horse, representing Cuff. This figure is bearing down on the other, representing William Dobbin, who has a triangular newspaper hat with a plume and a wooden sword raised to block his opponent.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22287
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22287_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Boys; Combat; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters