[Isidor and Joseph] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Isidor and Joseph]
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Clothing; Men; Valets; Fiction; Valets in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Belgium; Europe
Description: Joseph Sedley puts on his coat with help from Isidor, his valet. He is intending to go out to discover for himself whether the rumors of Napoleon’s victory are true. 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:22809
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22809_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Household employees; Clothing; Men; Valets; Fiction; Valets in literature; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction