The arrival at Queen's Crawley
William Makepeace Thackeray
Wood engraving
c.1861
Illustration for Chapter 44, Thackeray's Vanity Fair
Rebecca "and Sir Pitt performed the salute with great gravity: but Rawdon having been smoking, hung back rather from his sister-in-law, whose two children came up to their cousin, and, while Matilda helped out her hand and kissed him, Pitt Binkie Southdown, the son and heir, stood aloof rather, and examined him as a little dog does a big dog."
Image scanned by Gerald Ajam and captions by Tiaw Kay Siang and Sabrina Lim.