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

Title: [Vanity Fair Vol. I. Chapter VI Historiated Initial, I]
Subject: Men, White; Musicians; Dogs; Men; Musical instruments; music; Dogs in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Woodwind instruments; Woodwind instrument players
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: The narrator is depicted as a piper, standing beneath a tree on a hill and playing his pipe for the small dog that sits in front of him, looking up. In the distance are the silhouettes of the buildings of a town. In the top right of the image is the letter I.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23020
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23020_OBJ.jpg