[Vanity Fair Chapter XXIX Historiated Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XXIX Historiated Initial]
Subject: Women, White; Women; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Boxes (Theaters, auditoriums, etc.)
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: The picture shows Peggy O’Dowd in a feathered turban, holding a closed fan with both hands, with her elbows on a the edge of an opera box. In the top right of the image is the letter M from Mr.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22360
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22360_OBJ.jpg