[Vanity Fair Vol. I Chapter I Historiated Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Vol. I Chapter I Historiated Initial]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A coach drawn by two horses, driven by a coachman in a three-cornered hat. Beside him sits Sambo, the footman. On the right side of the image is the gate to Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, at which the coach has just arrived. In the background there are two trees and a building. In the top right of the image, overlapping with a tree, is the letter W from While.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22657
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22657_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Men, Black; Carriages and carts; Household employees; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Carriages and carts in literature