[Mr. Sedley and the Valet] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Sedley and the Valet]
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Alcohol; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction; Valets in literature; Valets; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: John Sedley, slightly stooped, holds a plate. George Osborne’s valet Trotter, surprised and slightly pleased, has just taken the glass of wine which Mr. Sedley offered him. He has just brought Amelia Osborne to visit her parents.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22554
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22554_OBJ.jpg