[Vanity Fair Chapter XVI Historiated Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter XVI Historiated Initial]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Secrecy; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Two figures are climbing over a wall using a ladder placed next to a tree. The man, representing Captain Rawdon Crawley, is at the bottom of the ladder, holding the hand of the woman. She is Rebecca Sharp, who is looking backwards as she climbs over the wall and onto the ladder. The ladder forms the letter H from How.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22328
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22328_OBJ.jpg