[Rebecca Crawley Asleep] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rebecca Crawley Asleep]
Subject: Women, White; Sleep; Women; Sleep in literature; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Literature and the wars; Battlefields; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Rebecca Crawley sleeping alone in her bed after waving goodbye to her husband. She has a sleeping cap on and looks peaceful and content, not at all concerned about the regiment’s departure to the battlefront.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23091
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23091_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Sleep; Women; Sleep in literature; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Literature and the wars; Battlefields; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters