[Joseph Putting on his Coat] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Joseph Putting on his Coat]
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Clothing; Men; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Literature and the wars; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Valets in literature; Valets; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Intending to go out to discover for himself whether the rumors of Napoleon’s victory are true, Joseph Sedley puts on his coat with help from Isidor, his valet. Jos is standing next to a chair over which another coat is draped, and on the wall behind Isidor hangs a large painting.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23093
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23093_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Clothing; Men; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Literature and the wars; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Fiction; Valets in literature; Valets; Fiction; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters