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

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XXXI Inhabited Initial]
Subject: Children; Boys; Soldiers; War; Drum
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: A drummer boy glances fearfully around the battlefield as he plays a beat upon his drum. The background is of low hills covered in clouds of smoke, with the letter T from Thus in the top right corner.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcuts
Identifier: mta:22366
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22366_OBJ.jpg