LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE LETTERS. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE LETTERS.
Subject: Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Courtship; Smoking
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: George Osborne stands facing the fireplace with one leg resting on a wooden chair, smoking a cigar which he has lit using a love letter. At the base of the chair is an open chest, filled with letters from Amelia Sedley. Two other officers are seated in the background. One is sitting on the edge of the desk, also smoking. The other is Dobbin, seated in an armchair over which a portrait of a woman hangs, looking startled. Below the illustration is printed its title and location in the story, “LIEUTENANT OSBONE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE-LETTERS. (p. 60.)".
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel engravings
Identifier: mta:24365
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_24365_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Men; Men, White; Soldiers; Letters; Courtship; Smoking