[Jos Tries to get a Shave] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Jos Tries to get a Shave]
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Shaving; Men; Valets; Fiction; Valets in literature; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Joseph Sedley, seated in a chair in his bed-chamber, gestures at his face to tell Isidor to shave off his moustaches. Jos is afraid of being mistaken for a military man and killed by the victorious French army. He has tried ordering a shave, but his French is not good enough to be understood.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22812
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22812_OBJ.jpg