[Miss Briggs Meets Lady Jane] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Miss Briggs Meets Lady Jane]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Introductions; Women; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs; Upper class families; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Mr. Pitt Crawley introduces Miss Briggs, his aunt’s companion, to Lady Jane Sheepshanks, his betrothed, with a smug look on his face. Miss Briggs, on her way home from the library, is holding one of her books and has dropped two others. Lady Jane is half hidden behind Mr. Crawley, looking shy.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22373
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22373_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Introductions; Women; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs; Upper class families; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters