[Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XIX Inhabited Initial, W] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XIX Inhabited Initial, W]
Subject: Boys; Men; Men, White; Ghosts; Tricks; Fear; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: A satisfied looking boy standing on a rectangular box or platform holds in front of him a stick. On it are a turnip disguised as a head and a ragged sheet or coat, forming the semblance of a ghost. A terrified looking man is on his knees with his arms raised in front of the ghost, a shovel dropped beside him. A tall fence in the background forms the letter W from We.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23059
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23059_OBJ.jpg