[Lord Gaunt’s Children] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Lord Gaunt’s Children]
Subject: Girls; Boys; Weapons; Swords; Chairs; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; reading; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Lord Gaunt’s children sit on the floor underneath a decorative set of swords, reading a book together. Next to them is an empty chair.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23140
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23140_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Girls; Boys; Weapons; Swords; Chairs; Children; Children in literature; Childhood and youth; reading; fictional works; Fictitious characters