[Vanity Fair Volume II. Chapter XIV Inhabited Initial, W] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume II. Chapter XIV Inhabited Initial, W]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: Two small figures appear to be performing in the middle of a street. One, in a triangular hat, is standing on stilts, to which the other, in a hat with two tails and with a sword at his hip, clings. In the background are the shapes of buildings and people in the crowd. The top right of the image contains the letter W from When.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23144
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23144_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Boys; Fools and jesters; Stilts; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters