Conducted to the top of the room · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Conducted to the top of the room
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Mr. Crawford leading Fanny to the dance floor to open the ball. Sir Thomas gave the ball in honour of William’s visit to Mansfield. It was at this time when Mr. Crawford decided he wanted to make Fanny love him. At the ball, Sir Thomas came over to ask if she had a partner for the first dance. She answered that Mr. Crawford had engaged her for the first two dances. Then Sir Thomas told her that she was to open the dancing with Mr. Crawford. She was shocked and tried to convince him that Edmund should open the dancing with Miss Crawford because she was very shy. Sir Thomas insisted, and Fanny relented and began the dancing with Mr. Crawford. This scene occurs in chapter 28. The characters are shown in the traditional regency style. Fanny wears a regency style dress with an empire waist. Mr. Crawford wears a tailcoat and breeches. The regency period dated to the early nineteenth century (1811-1820) when George, Prince of Wales, later George IV (r. 1820-1830), reigned as regent for his mentally ill father, King George III (r. 1760-1820). The regency period is associated with the rise of neoclassicism in art and fashion.
Image Creator: Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; pen and ink illustrations
Identifier: mta:25740
Language: eng
Source Name: Mansfield Park
Parent Collection: "Mansfield Park", by Jane Austen. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1898)
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