[Besty Horrocks Playing the Piano] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Besty Horrocks Playing the Piano]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Miss Betsy Horrocks, the butler’s daughter, with very large ribbons in her hair, sits on a low stool in front of the piano in the Crawley manor’s drawing-room, singing and playing a song. Beside her stands Miss Hester, the kitchen maid, who is insincerely praising her music.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23121
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23121_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Piano; Music; Women; Musical instruments; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Singing in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Upper class in literature