[Rawdon and Rebecca Dance] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rawdon and Rebecca Dance]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Dance; Courtship; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Captain Rawdon Crawley and Rebecca Sharp are in the center of the image, hand-in-hand as they perform a country dance. Mrs. Martha Crawley, Reverend Bute Crawley’s wife, is playing the piano in the background. Through the opening to the next room, a man seated at the table playing cards and a portrait hanging on the wall can be seen.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22313
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22313_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Dance; Courtship; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction