Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England
Pointon, Marcia, 1943-1993
Books, Manuscripts
Seeks to demonstrate how portraiture in 18th-century England provided mechanisms for constructing and accessing a national past and for controlling a present that appeared increasingly unruly.
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1993.
ix,278p. : ill(some col.), facsims.,ports.(some col.) ; 29cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
9780300057386
English
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