[Amelia’s Introduction to Mrs. O’Dowd] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Amelia’s Introduction to Mrs. O’Dowd]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Introductions; Women; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Amelia Osborne, wearing a bonnet, is shaking hands with Peggy O’Dowd, who has just entered the sitting room in a riding-habit, eager to meet the newest addition to the officers’s ladies. Through the doorway behind Mrs. O’Dowd are two officers of the regiment.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22557
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22557_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Introductions; Women; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters