[Vanity Fair Vol. II Chapter XXXII Inhabited Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Vol. II Chapter XXXII Inhabited Initial]
Subject: Women, White; Flight; Fear; Weapons; Women; angels in literature; swords; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Unknown
Description: A woman in a long gown with loose, wild hair flies through the sky, looking at the reader with bulging eyes and an open mouth. She is holding out in front of her two swords or long daggers. At the bottom right of the image is the letter W from “We”, with bright rays coming out from it as if it were the sun.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22569
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22569_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Flight; Fear; Weapons; Women; angels in literature; swords; fictional works; Fictitious characters