Lieutenant Osborne and his ardent love-letters · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Lieutenant Osborne and his ardent love-letters
Subject: Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Courtship; Smoking
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: George Osborne stands facing the fireplace with one leg resting on a wooden chair, smoking a cigar which he has lit using a love letter. At the base of the chair is an open chest, filled with letters from Amelia Sedley. Two other officers are seated in the background. One is sitting on the edge of the desk, also smoking. The other is Dobbin, seated in an armchair over which a portrait of a woman hangs, looking appalled. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, Lieutenant Osborne and his ardent love-letters.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:22759
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22759_OBJ.jpg