Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Plain white slipcase. Color illustrated dj with white text. Gray boards with gilt text on spine. ix, 278 pp. Color and bw illustrations. VG- (minior defect on dj, some minor bumping to boards, slipcase has bumping and minor tears, boards and pages of book excellent). Item #215214
ISBN: 9780300057386
Contents: pt. I. Biography: System: Portrait. I. Spaces of Portrayal. i. Hanging and Framing. ii. Portraiture as Business: London in the 1780s. II. Illustrious Heads. i. James Granger and the Politics of Collecting Engraved Historic Portrait Heads. ii. Ordering the Past: the Origins of Granger's System. iii. The Grangerized Book. III. Significant and Insignificant Lives. i. Likeness and Genre. ii. The Unfortunate Brave. iii. The Fantastic Gallery: Portraiture and Political Strategy -- pt. II. The Portrait and its Subject. IV. Dangerous Excrescences: Wigs, Hair and Masculinity. V. Going Turkish in Eighteenth-Century London: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Portraits. VI. The Conversation Piece: Generation, Gender and Genealogy. VII. The State of a Child. i. Infancy, Femininity and the Child-Portrait in Romney and Reynolds. ii. Allan Ramsay's Mansel and Blackwood Group and Thomas Lawrence's 'Pinkie'. iii. The Psychodynamics of Childhood: Hogarth and Lewis Carroll -- Epilogue: 'Saved from the housekeeper's room': the Foundation of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
OCLC: 25833442
Price: $45.00