[Miss Swartz Sees Amelia’s Name] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Miss Swartz Sees Amelia’s Name]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe; England
Description: Miss Rhoda Swartz, seated on the stool in front of the piano in the Osborne drawing-room, is turned towards the reader with an expression of joy on her face. She has just seen Amelia Sedley’s name on the sheet music she was using and is hoping for news of her friend.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22341
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22341_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Racially mixed people; Piano; Sheet music; Joy; Women; Women, Black; Musical instruments; Upper class in literature; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters