[Miss Pinkerton’s Drawing-Room] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Miss Pinkerton’s Drawing-Room]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: To the left of the image, Miss Jemima is standing in front of and looking out of a window, watching the arrival of the Sedley carriage. Miss Pinkerton, wearing a feathered turban, is in the foreground. She is seated at her desk with feet on a raised footrest and writing with a quill in her right hand.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22658
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22658_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Writing; School principals; Women; Schools; Fiction; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters