[Jos Requests a Shave] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Jos Requests a Shave]
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Shaving; Men; Valets in literature; Valets; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Joseph Sedley, seated in a chair in his bed-chamber, gestures at his face to tell Isidor to shave off his moustaches as his French is not good enough to be understood. Jos is afraid of being mistaken for a military man and killed by the victorious French army.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22371
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22371_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Shaving; Men; Valets in literature; Valets; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Manners and customs