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

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XXXII Inhabited Initial]
Subject: Women, White; Fear; Flight; Weapons; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: A woman in a long gown with wild loose hair flies through the sky, looking back with a fearful expression. She is holding out in front of her two swords or long daggers. Behind her, the sky is dark and filled with clouds, and at the bottom right of the image is the letter W from We, with bright rays coming out from it as if it were the sun.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22368
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22368_OBJ.jpg