[Vanity Fair Volume II. Chapter VI Historiated Initial, S] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume II. Chapter VI Historiated Initial, S]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A coach labelled OMNIBUS drives along a narrow road away from London, passing a stone marked with an X. One of the passengers is leaning out from the back with his arm outstretched, while two others can be seen seated inside. The coachman is seated above the carriage, holding his crop. Near the tip of the crop, in the sky, is the letter S from So.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23126
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23126_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Carriages and carts; Transportation; Men; Cab and omnibus service; Buses; Bus lines; Horse-drawn omnibuses; fictional works; Fictitious characters