[Rebecca Sleeping] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rebecca Sleeping]
Subject: Women, White; Sleep; Women; Sleep in literature; Battlefields; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Literature and the wars; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Rebecca Crawley sleeping alone in her bed. She has a sleeping cap on and looks peaceful and content, not at all concerned about her husband’s departure to the battlefront.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22365
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22365_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Sleep; Women; Sleep in literature; Battlefields; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Literature and the wars; fictional works; Fictitious characters