THE LETTER BEFORE WATERLOO · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: THE LETTER BEFORE WATERLOO
Subject: Women; Women, White; Crying; Letters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Germany; Europe
Description: Rebecca Sharp is standing against a column on the left of the image and looking to the right towards Amelia Sedley, who sits crying in a chair with one hand over her face. In her other hand she holds the letter which her husband gave to Becky in Chapter XXIX, asking her to run away with him. Two portraits hang on the wall behind the women. Below the illustration is printed its title and location in the story, THE LETTER BEFORE WATERLOO (p. 329.).
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:22539
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22539_OBJ.jpg