“Look, Will, you may read it if you like” · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “Look, Will, you may read it if you like”
Subject: Soldiers; Correspondence; Men; Fictitious characters; fictional works; gifts; Bankruptcy in literature; Military uniforms; Manners and customs; Men, White; Flirting in literature; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Gifts in literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: The image depicts a scene from page 170 in Chapter XVIII, in which George Osborne receives a package of the trinkets he gifted to Amelia Sedley. George Osborne is sitting in a wooden chair with his head in his right hand. In front of his is a table, piled with the papers and trinkets Amelia returned when her family went bankrupt. William Dobbin stands on the other side of the table, with one hand on it and the other holding his cane. Both men are dressed in their military uniforms, but only Dobbin is wearing a bicorn hat. In the background, a portrait of a man hangs on one wall. George’s sword hangs on the other wall, below a shelf holding his hat and a pot.
Image Creator: Frank T. Merrill (Artist); John Andrew & Son (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engravings
Identifier: mta:25084
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel Without A Hero In Two Volumes
Parent Collection: "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray. Engravings by John Andrew & Son (1893); "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray. Engravings by John Andrew & Son (1893)
Image: mta_25084_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Soldiers; Correspondence; Men; Fictitious characters; fictional works; gifts; Bankruptcy in literature; Military uniforms; Manners and customs; Men, White; Flirting in literature; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Gifts in literature

Media: mta_25084_OBJ.jpg