[Sir Pitt’s Proposal] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sir Pitt’s Proposal]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Sir Pitt Crawley kneels on the ground in his sister’s parlour, one hand extended towards Rebecca Sharp, who stands in front of him looking slightly startled. In the background are two life-sized portraits of women.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22324
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22324_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Marriage propsals; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Marriage in literature; Betrothal