[Becky Carrying the Coal-Scuttle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Becky Carrying the Coal-Scuttle]
Subject: Women, White; Housekeeping; Women; Housekeeping in literature; Stoves, Coal; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Rebecca Crawley carries a coal-scuttle from her room to Miss Briggs’ room, where Sir Pitt Crawley will be staying while in London.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23133
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23133_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Housekeeping; Women; Housekeeping in literature; Stoves, Coal; fictional works; Fictitious characters