[The Workers at the Parlour Door] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Workers at the Parlour Door]
Subject: Men, Black; Women; Women, White; Children; Boys; Household employees; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Upper class in literature; Singing in literature; Manners and customs; Housekeepers; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: The footman Sambo, Mrs. Blenkinsop the housekeeper, and the cook stand at the landing-place outside the drawing room to listen to Rebecca Sharp sing. In the background is another figure in uniform, possibly a page boy.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23015
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23015_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, Black; Women; Women, White; Children; Boys; Household employees; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Upper class in literature; Singing in literature; Manners and customs; Housekeepers; Fiction