Talking over the business. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Talking over the business.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: In this image Mrs. Ferrars discusses Edward’s engagement with Robert Ferrars, Edward’s younger brother. After announcing his engagement, his mother disowned him, reallocating his inheritance to his brother Robert. Typically, the largest portion of the inheritance would go to the eldest son following the custom of primogeniture, but Mrs. Ferrars decided against this following the scandal. This scene occurs in chapter 37. The characters are shown in the traditional regency style. Robert Ferrars wears a waistcoat and tailcoat with breeches and a cravat. Mrs. Ferrars wears a regency style dress with an empire waistline and wears a mop cap. The regency period dated to the early nineteenth century (1811-1820) when George, Prince of Wales, later George IV (r. 1820-1830), reigned as regent for his mentally ill father, King George III (r. 1760-1820). The regency period is associated with the rise of neoclassicism in art and fashion.
Image Creator: Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; pen and ink illustrations
Identifier: mta:25845
Language: eng
Source Name: Sense and Sensibility
Parent Collection: "Sense and Sensibility," by Jane Austen. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1896); "Sense and Sensibility," by Jane Austen. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1896)
Image: mta_25845_OBJ.png
Collection: Sense and Sensibility