Skin and Bone: Surface and Substance in Anglo-Colonial Portraiture

This visual essay takes an exploratory tour through certain aspects of portraiture in Britain, continental Europe, America, and Australia, from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Investigating the physiognomies of politics and sensibility, class and race, across numerous specific h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Hansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2020-02-01
Series:British Art Studies
Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-15/skin-and-bone