[Lord Steyne at Prince Polonia’s Ball] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Lord Steyne at Prince Polonia’s Ball]
Subject: Men, White; Nobility; Balls (Parties); Dance in literature; Dinners and dining in literature; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Italy; Europe
Description: Lord Steyne, the scar on his forehead visible from when Rawdon Crawley threw his diamond back at him, drinks from a wine glass at Prince Polonia’s ball. He is standing next to a taller man, who is reaching out to take a glass from the tray a nearby serving man holds.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23185
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23185_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Nobility; Balls (Parties); Dance in literature; Dinners and dining in literature; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters