[Rawdon Receives his Mail] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rawdon Receives his Mail]
Subject: Men, White; Children; Boys; Letters; Clerks (Retail trade); Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon Crawley is at the saddler’s where he, under the pseudonym Eliza Styles, is receiving letters from Rebecca Sharp. He is seated on the counter, reading his newest letter while twirling his moustache. To his side is a saddle displayed over a beam, and the boy behind the counter is smiling up at him.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23053
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23053_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Children; Boys; Letters; Clerks (Retail trade); Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs