LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE LETTERS. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE LETTERS.
Subject: Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Courtship; Smoking
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: George Osborne stands facing the fireplace with one leg resting on a wooden chair, smoking a cigar which he has lit using a love letter from Amelia Sedley. At the base of the chair is an open chest, filled with more of her letters. Two other officers are seated in the background. One is sitting on the edge of the desk, also smoking. The other is Dobbin, seated in an armchair over which a portrait of a woman hangs, looking shocked. Below the illustration is printed its title and location in the story, “LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE LETTERS. (p. 60.)”.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:22516
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22516_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Courtship; Smoking