[Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XXIV Historiated Initial, S] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XXIV Historiated Initial, S]
Subject: Men, White; Cavalry; Horses; Serpents; Weapons; Spears; Men; Serpents in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A man, representing William Dobbin, mounted on a rearing horse points a spear with a pennant at a winged serpent. The serpent, representing Mr. Osborne as Dobbin goes to inform him that his son has married against his wishes, is curved into the letter S from “So”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23070
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23070_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Cavalry; Horses; Serpents; Weapons; Spears; Men; Serpents in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters