[Historical Dress] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Historical Dress]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: An illustration of a lady and officer, attired as they would accurately be at the time of the story. The lady wears a long, thin dress and elongated bonnet, while the officer wears a coat with tails and oversized, pointed hat, and carries a very thin cane. In the background are many small figures and what appears to be an elaborate bridge or terrace pagoda.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22683
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22683_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Clothing; Women; Fashion in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Manners and customs