[Rawdon and Rebecca Receive a Letter] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Rawdon and Rebecca Receive a Letter]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Letters; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rebecca Crawley stands at her dressing-table with her hair loose, waving a piece of paper in the air. Next to her, Rawdon Crawley stands looking puzzled, still holding the tray with the pitcher of chocolate and cup that he brought her for breakfast along with the letter. The letter is from his brother, now Sir Pitt Crawley after their father’s death, inviting them to the funeral at the estate.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23125
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23125_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Letters; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature