[Captain MacMurdo] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Captain MacMurdo]
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Dueling; Men; Dueling in literature; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Captain MacMurdo lies in bed in his room, surrounded by boxing, sporting, and dancing pictures. Rawdon Crawley sits backwards in a wooden chair next to his bed, looking gloomy. He has come to ask Captain MacMurdo to act as his second for a duel with Lord Steyne.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22433
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22433_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Dueling; Men; Dueling in literature; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs