[Rebecca buys the Portrait] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rebecca buys the Portrait]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Auctions; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon and Rebecca Crawley, having won the auction for the portrait of Joseph on the Elephant, exchange their half-a-guinea for the item.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22332
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22332_OBJ.jpg