[Letter Carrier] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Letter Carrier]
Subject: Childhood and youth; Boys; Letters; Angels; Children; Letter writing; Children in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: A small boy in a uniform and triangular hat with a pair of tiny angel wings holds a packet of sealed correspondence out to a doorway, most likely a letter from Amelia Sedley to George Osborne. The boy has a bag in his other hand and more letters tucked under his arm.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23046
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23046_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Childhood and youth; Boys; Letters; Angels; Children; Letter writing; Children in literature