[Rebecca Purchases the Portrait] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rebecca Purchases the Portrait]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Auctions; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Women; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon and Rebecca Crawley, having won the auction for the portrait of Joseph Sedley on an elephant, exchange their half-a-guinea for the item.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23056
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23056_OBJ.jpg