[Amelia at her Father’s Bedside] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Amelia at her Father’s Bedside]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Death; Women; Death and burial; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Fathers and daughters in literature; Manners and customs
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Amelia Sedley kneels by her father’s bedside, holding his hand while they pray together as he dies. Two other men, possibly the doctor and the butler, also stand in the room, but a few steps back from the bed next to a table with a candlestick.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23176
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23176_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Men, White; Death; Women; Death and burial; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Fathers and daughters in literature; Manners and customs