[Amelia’s Old Room] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Amelia’s Old Room]
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Melancholy; Women; Housekeepers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Amelia Osborne sits in the chair in her bedroom from before she was married, looking melancholy. Behind her, Miss Flannigan, the maid, is leaning over the chair with one hand on her hip. On a smaller, wooden chair and the floor in front of Amelia there are scattered papers.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22796
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22796_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Melancholy; Women; Housekeepers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs