[Vanity Fair Chapter XLIX Inhabited Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XLIX Inhabited Initial]
Subject: Children; Boys; Fools and jesters; Stilts
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: Two small figures appear to be performing in the middle of a street. One, in a triangular hat, is standing on stilts, to which the other, in a hat with two tails and a sword at his hip, clings. In the background are the shapes of buildings and people in the crowd. The top right of the image contains the letter W from When.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcuts
Identifier: mta:22417
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22417_OBJ.jpg