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Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England / Marcia Pointon.

by Pointon, Marcia R.

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New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.

Portraits -- England -- History -- 18th century.

Portraits -- Social aspects -- England.

Electronic Resource

http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780300057386.pdf

0300057385 (hardcover)

9780300057386 (hardcover)

0300073682 (pbk.)

9780300073683 (pbk.)

ix, 278 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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.

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