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

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XIX Inhabited Initial]
Subject: Boys; Men; Men, White; Ghosts; Tricks; Fear; Children; Children in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: A satisfied looking boy standing on a rectangular box or platform holds in front of him a stick. On it are a turnip disguised as a head and a ragged sheet or coat, forming the semblance of a ghost. A terrified looking man is on his knees with his arms raised in front of the ghost, a shovel dropped beside him. A tall fence in the background forms the letter W from We.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22334
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22334_OBJ.jpg