[Mr. Chopper in His Best Suit] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Mr. Chopper in His Best Suit]
Subject: Men, White; Clerks; Women; Women, White; Children; Girls; Clothing and dress; Men; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Mr. Chopper, Mr. John Osborne’s clerk, has dressed in his best suit and frilled shirt to meet his client. He is putting on his gloves and has an umbrella tucked under one arm. Beside him, his wife is smiling with her arms folded, and one of his daughters looks up at him eagerly with her hands behind her back. Another one of his children can be seen peeking around the corner.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22345
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22345_OBJ.jpg