[Becky Sharp atop the Carriage] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Becky Sharp atop the Carriage]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Carriages and carts; Transportation; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Five figures, four men in tall hats and a woman a dark coat, sit upon a public carriage travelling from London to Queen’s Crawley. At the right of the picture, in the box, are the coachman and Sir Pitt, holding a crop. Behind them are a young man from Cambridge, who has lent one of his coats to Rebecca Sharp, who sits between him and the final man. All four men are wearing tall hats, though Sir Pitt’s is shorter than those of the others. On the left of the picture is the front of the pile of luggage stacked on the carriage roof.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23029
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23029_OBJ.jpg