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

Title: [Vanity Fair Volume I. Chapter XXXII Inhabited Initial, W]
Subject: Women, White; Flight; Fear; Weapons; Women; angels in literature; swords; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Sky
Description: A woman in a long gown with wild loose hair flies through the sky, looking back with a fearful expression. She is holding out in front of her two swords or long daggers. Behind her, the sky is dark and filled with clouds, and at the bottom right of the image is the letter W from “We”, with bright rays coming out from it as if it were the sun.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23094
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23094_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Flight; Fear; Weapons; Women; angels in literature; swords; fictional works; Fictitious characters