[Vanity Fair Volume II. Chapter XXXII Inhabited Initial, W] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume II. Chapter XXXII Inhabited Initial, W]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: A boy kneels before a black man, likely either a teacher or judge, with his hands together in entreaty. The man is dressed in a black robe and tasseled cap, holding a short-handled broom. In the background are many other boys, some smiling, some with expressions of shock. In the top right corner of the image is the letter W from Whatever.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23190
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23190_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Boys; Men; Men, Black; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters