[Sir Pitt Proposes to Rebecca] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sir Pitt Proposes to Rebecca]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Marriage propsals; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Marriage in literature; Betrothal; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Sir Pitt Crawley kneels on the ground in his sister’s parlour, one hand extended towards Rebecca Sharp, who stands in front of him looking slightly startled. In the background are two life-sized portraits of women.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23050
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23050_OBJ.jpg