Sir Pitt’s last Stage · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sir Pitt’s last Stage
Subject: Men; Men, White; Women; Women, White; Children; Girls; Household employees; Diseases
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Sir Pitt Crawley, in a nightcap, sits in the chair in front of the fireplace in his apartments. Behind him, Lady Jane Crawley and her daughter, Matilda Crawley, are holding hands as they leave the room. Next to Sir Pitt, Miss Hester, now his nurse, has turned his chair away from the fire with a scowl on her face. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, “Sir Pitt’s last Stage.”
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:23124
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23124_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men; Men, White; Women; Women, White; Children; Girls; Household employees; Diseases