Title-page Vignette

W. M. Thackeray

1855

Wood engraving, probably by William Linton

6.5 cm high by 9 cm wide (2 ½ by 3 ½ inches)

Title-page vignette for Thackeray’s The Rose and The Ring.

Thackeray establishes his ideal audience, a middle-class family (a mother, six children, and a grandmother) gathered around a roaring coal fire in which figures appear to rise. Headline: "Here Begins The Pantomime" (291).

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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