[Vanity Fair Chapter XLIV Inhabited Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XLIV Inhabited Initial]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Unknown; Ocean
Description: A mermaid with long hair and a thin twisting tail floats near some rocks, mostly out of the water. She is playing a small harp beneath the full moon, which forms the letter O from Our.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcuts
Identifier: mta:22406
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22406_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Mermaids; Harp; Water; Moon