[Joseph Orders a Shave]
- Title
- [Joseph Orders a Shave]
- Subject
- Men, White
- Household employees
- Shaving
- Men
- Valets in literature
- Valets
- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Upper class in literature
- Upper class families
- Fiction
- fictional works
- Fictitious characters
- Period
- 1800-1850;
- 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)
- Identifier
- mta:22571
- Language
- eng
- Source Name
- Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. Vol. II.
- Parent Collection
- Vanity Fair
- Image
- mta_22571_OBJ.jpg
- Media
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mta_22571_OBJ.jpg
