[Amelia and the Maid] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Amelia and the Maid]
Subject: Women, White; Household employees; Melancholy; Women; Housekeepers; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Amelia Osborne sits in the chair in her bedroom from before she was married, looking melancholy. Behind her, the maid is leaning over the chair with one hand on her hip. On a smaller, wooden chair and the floor in front of Amelia there are scattered papers.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22555
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22555_OBJ.jpg