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

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XVII Historiated Initial]
Subject: Men; Men, White; Indian Men; Painting; Auctions; Elephants; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: India; Asia; England; Europe
Description: A framed portrait of Joseph Sedley holding a gun while riding on the back of an elephant, with a native driver sitting behind its head. In the top right of the painting is the letter I, from “If”. The picture is tagged in the top left corner with a paper labelled “LOT369”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22330
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22330_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men; Men, White; Indian Men; Painting; Auctions; Elephants; fictional works; Fictitious characters