Mr. Jos’s Hookahbadar. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Mr. Jos’s Hookahbadar.
Subject: Indian Men; Men, White; Women; Women, White; Household employees; Hookahs; Hotels; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Loll Jewab, Joseph Sedley’s servant from India, carries his hookah into the inn, scaring the maids, one of whom is holding a bucket and the other a broom. The Boots stands next to an inside door, where he was going around picking up the patrons’ shoes. Below the illustration is printed its title, Mr. Jos’s Hookahbadar..
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:24979
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel Without A Hero In Three Volumes Vol. III.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_24979_OBJ.jpg