… http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/mcraske . Pointon, Marcia, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven And London: Paul Mellon Centre BA, 1993), chapter VI. Retford, Kate, … http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/mcraske . Pointon, Marcia, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven And London: Paul Mellon Centre BA, 1993), chapter VI. Retford, Kate, …
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