Mrs. Rawdon’s departure from Paris · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Mrs. Rawdon’s departure from Paris
Subject: Women; Women, White; Children; Boys; Men; Men, White; Household employees; Carriages and carts
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: France; Europe
Description: Rebecca Crawley sits grandly in a carriage, wearing a bonnet and muff and saying her farewells to the woman and two men standing beside the carriage. Opposite her sits Genevieve, the maid, holding little Rawdon. The carriage is pulled by a pair of horses, with the driver seated astride the larger of the two. In the background, the buildings of Paris and a tall tower topped with a flag can be seen. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, “Mrs. Rawdon’s departure from Paris.”
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:23114
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23114_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women; Women, White; Children; Boys; Men; Men, White; Household employees; Carriages and carts