A Fine Summer Evening. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: A Fine Summer Evening.
Subject: Women; Women, White; Men; Men, White; Drawing; Children; Boys; Donkeys
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Germany; Europe
Description: Amelia Osborne sits on a stool on the beach, drawing in her sketchbook. William Dobbin sits on the sand next to her, watching her with an expression of bliss. Another sketchbook or stack of papers lies on the sand in front of them. Further down the shore, a boy is riding a kicking donkey. In the background is a castle and tower on a cliff. Below the illustration is printed its title, “A Fine Summer Evening.”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:24980
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel Without A Hero In Three Volumes Vol. III.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_24980_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women; Women, White; Men; Men, White; Drawing; Children; Boys; Donkeys