[A Genteel Rose-Water Alternate Style Part I] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Genteel Rose-Water Alternate Style Part I]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: The illustration depicts a scene which might have been part of the story if it was written in a different style. The Marquis of Osbourne, in an embellished robe, has handed a letter to his ‘petit tigre’ for deliver to Lady Amelia. In the background of the image hangs a portrait on the wall of that same woman, with the words Lour A Gauche on her skirt.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22292
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22292_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Children; Boys; Letters; Portraits; Courtship; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs