[Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XXII Inhabited Initial, E] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XXII Inhabited Initial, E]
Subject: Boys; Soldiers; Banners; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe
Description: A small figure in a Roman helmet and uniform holds onto a pole twice as tall as he is. The pole is tipped with a spear point and a trailing banner is tied to it with a tasseled rope. The banner itself is decorated with symbols similar to the letters A and C overlapping, while the tails curls to form the letter E from “Enemies”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23067
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23067_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Boys; Soldiers; Banners; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; fictional works; Fictitious characters