[Hester and Betsy] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Hester and Betsy]
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Piano; Music; Women; Musical instruments; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Miss Betsy Horrocks, the butler’s daughter, with very large ribbons in her hair, sits on a low stool in front of the piano in the Crawley manor’s drawing-room. Beside her stands Miss Hester, the kitchen maid, who is praising her playing.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22590
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22590_OBJ.jpg