Sir Pitt's Study Chair
William Makepeace Thackeray
Wood engraving
c.1861
Illustration for 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."
Image scanned by Gerald Ajam and captions by Tiaw Kay Siang and Sabrina Lim.