Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… Argyll’, Yale Center for British Art, B1977.14.68, c. 1760. Abstract This entry explores the conceptualisation of female beauty in Britain in the long eighteenth century. The period, particularly around the mid-century, saw a surge of discourses on beauty, establishing aesthetic, moral, and social trends. Through these commentaries and women’s increasing social … As Hannah Greig suggests, physical beauty presented an element of ‘risk and unpredictability into the world of the beau monde’. 8 A prime example of the instability beauty could bring to the social hierarchy can be seen in the Gunning …
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