[Vanity Fair Vol. I Chapter VIII Opening] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Vol. I Chapter VIII Opening]
Subject: Women, White; Portraits; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rebecca Sharp is seated on the arm of a chair in the great hall at Queen’s Crawley, looking at a large painting of a woman. It is hung on the wall between paintings of other Crawley ancestors. To the left is a cabinet, and to the right a high-backed armless chair.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22737
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22737_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Portraits; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction