[Rhoda Swartz at the Piano] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rhoda Swartz at the Piano]
Subject: Women, Black; Racially mixed people; Piano; Joy; Sheet music; Women; Musical instruments; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Miss Rhoda Swartz, seated on the stool in front of the piano in the Osborne drawing-room, is turned towards the reader with an expression of joy on her face. She has just seen Amelia Sedley’s name on the sheet music she was using and is hoping for news of her friend.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23066
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23066_OBJ.jpg