[Ensign Stubble Writing Home] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Ensign Stubble Writing Home]
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Writing; Sadness; Men; Letter writing; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Tom Stubble sits at one of the coffee-room tables at the Slaughter’s, writing a letter to his parents before his regiment leaves for Belgium. He is holding a pen against the piece of paper on which he has written only a couple of lines, and has his head drooped sadly into his other hand. On the table in front of him is an inkwell with another pen in it.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22788
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22788_OBJ.jpg