The Note on the Pincushion · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The Note on the Pincushion
Subject: Women; Women, White; Household employees; Letters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: The image depicts a scene from Chapter XVI. Betty Martin, Miss Crawley’s upstairs maid, smiles as she sees the note left by Rebecca Sharp for Miss Briggs. The note itself is on a pincushion on the table by the window, along with a standing mirror and a pitcher. In the background, the bed, neat and unslept-in, can faintly be seen. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, “The Note on the Pincushion”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:22655
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22655_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women; Women, White; Household employees; Letters