[Sambo Brings a Letter] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sambo Brings a Letter]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, Black; Letters; Household employees; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Sambo, standing on the right, presents a platter on which rests a letter for Miss Amelia Sedley from her brother. Amelia, who is reaching for the letter, sits on the sofa next to Rebecca Sharp. Amelia looks concerned, while Becky looks irritated. On the wall behind them is a portrait of the man in question atop an elephant, and on the table to the left of the illustration lies an open book and inkwell with a pen and quill.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22682
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22682_OBJ.jpg