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

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XVI Historiated Initial, H]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Secrecy; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Two figures are climbing over a wall using a ladder placed next to a tree. The man, representing Captain Rawdon Crawley, is at the bottom of the ladder, holding the hand of the woman. She represents Rebecca Sharp, looking backwards as she climbs over the wall and onto the ladder. The ladder forms the letter H from “How”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23054
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23054_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Secrecy; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters