[Captain Crawley Reading a Letter] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Captain Crawley Reading a Letter]
Subject: Men, White; Children; Boys; Letters; Clerks (Retail trade); Men; Letter writing; Children in literature; Flirting in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon Crawley is at the saddler’s where he, under the pseudonym of Eliza Styles, is receiving letters from Rebecca Sharp. He is seated on the counter, reading his newest letter while twirling his moustache. The boy behind the counter is smiling up at him, and to his side is a saddle displayed over a beam.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22765
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22765_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Children; Boys; Letters; Clerks (Retail trade); Men; Letter writing; Children in literature; Flirting in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs