Sir Pitt's Study Chair
Illustrator: William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustration to Chapter 54, Thackeray's Vanity Fair
A book of family sermons, one of which Sir Pitt was in the habit of administering to his family on Sunday mornings, lay ready on a study table, and awaiting his judicious selection. And by the sermon-book was the Observer newspaper before he laid it by his master's desk.
