An assortment of images inspired by, or devoted to the late Victorian novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray's novel satirizes the petty cruelties and deep moral failings of "upperclass" society in early 19th.C England. A beautiful sad tale, it is replete with the visual excesses of the burgeoning Empire. A sweeping visual landscape of a novel, awash with absurd parades and parties, ornate meals by candelight, the lovely wet soft green of the southern English plains and the busy mad roccoco of late Victorian fashions. It is interesting to see over time, and across disiplines, how the novel is visually represented.
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