A fine Summer Evening · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: A fine Summer Evening
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Germany; Europe
Description: Amelia Osborne sits on a stool on the beach, drawing in her sketchbook. William Dobbin sits on the sand next to her, watching her with an expression of bliss. Further down the shore, a boy is riding a kicking donkey whose lead rope is held by a girl. In the background is a castle and tower on a cliff. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, A fine Summer Evening.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:22453
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22453_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women; Women, White; Men; Men, White; Drawing; Children; Boys; Girls; Donkeys