[A Thrilling Alternate Style] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Thrilling Alternate Style]
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Robbers and outlaws; Pistols; Men; Housekeepers; Fiction; Household employees; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Brigands and robbers in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: The illustration depicts a scene which might have been a part of the story if it was written in a different style. In the foreground, the Black Vizard, masked, points two pistols at a woman (likely the cook or housekeeper) kneeling on the ground with her hands clasped before her in entreaty. In the background are two men with tall hats carrying rifles.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22291
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22291_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Women; Women, White; Robbers and outlaws; Pistols; Men; Housekeepers; Fiction; Household employees; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Brigands and robbers in literature