[Rawdon Playing Billiards] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rawdon Playing 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 front of himself. 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 next to a bottle and smoking a cigar.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23111
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23111_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Billiards; Smoking; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature