[Captain Crawley at the Saddler’s] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Captain Crawley at the Saddler’s]
Subject: Men, White; Children; Boys; Letters; Clerks (Retail trade); Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Letter writing; Flirting in literature; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon Crawley is at the saddler’s where he is receiving letters under the pen name of Eliza Styles from Rebecca Sharp. He is seated on the counter, reading his newest letter while twirling his moustache. The boy behind the counter is smiling up at him, and to his side is a saddle displayed over a beam.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22327
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22327_OBJ.jpg