[Dobbin’s Letters] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Dobbin’s Letters]
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Men; Letter writing; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Betrothal; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: India; Asia
Description: William Dobbin sits in a wooden chair at his desk, reading the first of his letters. It is from Amelia Osborne, congratulating him on what she believes to be his engagement. The other letters are bundled on his desk.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22405
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22405_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Men; Letter writing; Soldiers in literature; Soldiers; Fiction; Betrothal; Manners and customs; fictional works; Fictitious characters