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Samuel Laurence's Portrait of George Eliot. far more gentle and naturalistic vein. Quite a fair number of Smith's drawings are taken from almost the same point of view as Towne's, e.g. The Baths of Titus (L.B. II, 5), The Arch of Septimus Severus. (L.B. III, Io), The Temple of Concord (L.B. II, i6), and details. of the Colosseum (L.B. I, I and 20).
This gallery presents portraits of the Victorian novelist, Mary Ann Evans, known to the world as George Eliot. Curated in collaboration with the George Eliot Archive, where it originated in 2018, the gallery is unique in the number and scope of portraits that it makes accessible for multidisciplinary inquiry and scholarship.
The icon of Eliot as that 'repulsive phenomenon, the "man-woman"', emerged from a nineteenth-century equa tion of woman with her reproductive organs that was based on a scientific model of incommensurable sexual difference.
- Kristin Brady
- 1992
Feminine beauty and the female body have been objects of concern for both feminists and art critics since the early 1970's. In an article entitled "Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Sur-realist Art," visual art critic Mary Ann Caws asks, "Does the woman look-ing [at images of females] take the stance of another or of a same?"2 If
Jan 15, 2011 · Portrait of George Eliot by Samuel Laurence in 1860. Summary [edit] Author: Samuel Laurence (–1884) ...
Curated in partnership with the George Eliot Archive, the "George Eliot Portrait Gallery" features portraits of the writer Mary Ann Evans, known to the world as George Eliot. This collection is remarkable in the number and scope of rare portraits that it presents.
Samuel Laurence (1812-1844), who was well-known for his chalk and crayon portraits of Victorian writers, was a longtime friend of George Henry Lewes’s. He asked in 1860 if he could draw George Eliot’s head and shoulders.
