[Dobbin Reading his Letters] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Dobbin Reading his Letters]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: India; Asia
Description: William Dobbin sits in a wooden chair at his desk, reading the first of his letters, with the others left bundled on his desk. The letter he holds is from Amelia Osborne, congratulating him on his engagement - though she was told about it by his sister, no such engagement exists.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23131
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23131_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Men; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Betrothal; Marriage in literature; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Letter writing; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs