[Regulus Tells of the Battle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Regulus Tells of the Battle]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Pauline, the maid, stands in the kitchen looking at her lover, Regulus Van Cutsum. He is sitting on the table, drinking a flagon of beer, and still dressed in the military uniform from the battle which he was ordered by his colonel to flee, though he tells the tale as though he were the only survivor.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22570
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22570_OBJ.jpg