[Mr. Pitt, Lady Jane, and Miss Briggs] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Pitt, Lady Jane, and Miss Briggs]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Introductions; Books; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Mr. Pitt Crawley introduces Miss Briggs, his aunt’s companion, to Lady Jane Sheepshanks, his betrothed, with a smug look on his face. Miss Briggs, on her way home from the library, is holding one of her books and has dropped two others. Lady Jane is half hidden behind Mr. Crawley, looking shy.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22815
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22815_OBJ.jpg