[Vanity Fair Vol. I. Chapter I Historiated Initial, W] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Vol. I. Chapter I Historiated Initial, W]
Subject: Men, White; Men, Black; Carriages and carts; Household employees; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A coach drawn by two horses, driven by a coachman in a three-cornered hat. Beside him sits Sambo, the footman. On the right side of the image is the gate to Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, at which the coach has just arrived. In the background there are two trees and a building. In the top right of the image is the letter W, from While.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23004
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23004_OBJ.jpg