[Rawdon’s Skill at Billiards] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rawdon’s Skill at Billiards]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: France; Europe
Description: Rawdon Crawley, smoking a cigar, leans over the billiards table as he lines his cue up with a ball. On the other side of the table is a man holding his cue vertically. In the background to the right are two other men, one standing and wearing a suit, and the other seated on the edge of a table while smoking.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22581
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22581_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Billiards; Smoking; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature