[Vanity Fair Vol. I Chapter VII Historiated Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Vol. I Chapter VII Historiated Initial]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Queens; Beer; Women; Kings, queens, rulers, etc; Queens in literature; fictional works; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Queen Elizabeth I is depicted standing on a raised dais to the left of the image, drinking from a pitcher of beer she holds in both hands. In front of her is the ancestor of Pitt Crawley, a man with a pointed beard, kneeling and holding the platter from which the beer was taken. A slight figure of a guard can be seen behind the queen, and in the top right of the picture, the letter A from Among is seen through a window.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22732
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22732_OBJ.jpg