[Rebecca and Sir Pitt] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rebecca and Sir Pitt]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Marriage propsals; Women; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Marriage in literature; Betrothal; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Sir Pitt Crawley kneels on the ground in his sister’s parlour, one hand extended towards Rebecca Sharp, who stands in front of him looking slightly startled. In the background are two life-sized portraits of women.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22762
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22762_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Marriage propsals; Women; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Marriage in literature; Betrothal; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters