Note 4 to Chapter 1 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
For recent descriptions of this interchange, see Hunt, p. 180; Peter Conrad, The Victorian Treasure-House (London: Collins, 1973), p. 134; lan Fletcher, "Some Types and Emblems in Victorian Poetry," The Listener, 77 (25 May 1967), 679; and Norman Page, "Visual Techniques in Hardy's 'Desperate Remedies,"' Ariel, 4 (1973), 70-71.
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