[Georgy Watches Becky Gamble] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Georgy Watches Becky Gamble]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Germany; Europe
Description: Rebecca Crawley, in a low-cut dress and black mask, leans over a gambling table. Behind her stands Georgy Osborne, who was brought there by Mr. Kirsch, his uncle’s courier, while the others went to the ball. Next to Becky is another man, facing away, with a stack of coins at his side.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23189
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23189_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Children; Boys; Men; Men, White; Gambling; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Gambling in literature; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs