Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… Image Joshua Reynolds, ‘Elizabeth Hamilton [née Gunning], Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll’, Yale Center for British Art, B1977.14.68, c. 1760. Abstract This entry explores the … 2 One of the eighteenth-century’s most celebrated beauties embodied this physical description: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire . Exhibiting all the typical qualities of the period’s ideal beauty, she was often depicted with pale clear …
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