Sir Pitt’s Study-Chair · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sir Pitt’s Study-Chair
Subject: Men, White; Desks; Desk sets; Brothers and sisters; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon Crawley sits in the chair at his brother’s desk with his chin on his hand, looking gloomy. His brother, Sir Pitt Crawley, stands next to him, trimming his nails as they talk. Rawdon wishes for Pitt and Jane to take care of his son once he leaves. Behind the desk is a cabinet with glass doors, and between the two men in the trash bin. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, “Sir Pitt’s Study-Chair”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:23158
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23158_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Desks; Desk sets; Brothers and sisters; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters