Sir Pitt’s Study-Chair · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sir Pitt’s Study-Chair
Subject: Men, White; Desks; Desk sets; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Brothers and sisters; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rawdon Crawley sits in the chair at his brother’s desk with his chin on his hand, looking gloomy. His brother, Sir Pitt Crawley, stands next to him, trimming his nails as they talk. Rawdon wishes for Pitt and Jane to take care of his son once he leaves. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, “Sir Pitt’s Study-Chair”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:22432
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22432_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Desks; Desk sets; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Brothers and sisters; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters