[Vanity Fair Chapter XXXVI Inhabited Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XXXVI Inhabited Initial]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A pair of young children stand by the seaside. The girl is wearing a bonnet and has her fingers gripped behind her back, while the boy is holding onto the string of a kite. The kite is shaped like a cone with a rounded top, and flies next to the letter I.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22379
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22379_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Boys; Girls; Kites; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters