The letter before Waterloo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The letter before Waterloo
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Germany; Europe
Description: The image depicts a scene from Chapter XXXII. On the left, Rebecca Sharp is standing against a column and looking to the right towards Amelia Sedley, who sits crying in a chair with one hand over her face. In her other hand she holds the letter which her husband gave to Becky in Chapter XXIX of Volume I, asking her to run away with him. In the background can be seen two pictures on the wall, a dresser with various objects placed upon it, and part of the canopy of a bed. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, The letter before Waterloo.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:23107
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23107_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women; Women, White; Crying; Letters