[Mr. Sedley Greeting Trotter] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Sedley Greeting Trotter]
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Alcohol; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Valets in literature; Valets; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: John Sedley, slightly stooped, holds a plate out to Trotter, George Osborne’s valet, who brought Amelia to visit her parents. Trotter has just taken the glass of wine which Mr. Sedley offered him and is surprised and slightly pleased by the courtesy.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23079
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23079_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Alcohol; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Valets in literature; Valets; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction