[Vanity Fair Chapter VII Historiated Initial] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Vanity Fair Chapter VII Historiated Initial]
Subject: Men; Men, White; Queens; Beer; Women; fictional works; Manners and customs; Women, White; Kings, queens, rulers, etc; Queens in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Queen Elizabeth I is depicted standing on a raised dais to the left of the image, drinking from a pitcher of beer she holds in both hands. In front of her is the ancestor of Pitt Crawley, a man with a pointed beard, kneeling and holding the platter from which the beer was taken. A slight figure of a guard can be seen behind the queen, and in the top right of the picture, the letter A from “Among” is seen through a window.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22299
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22299_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men; Men, White; Queens; Beer; Women; fictional works; Manners and customs; Women, White; Kings, queens, rulers, etc; Queens in literature