Eliot's concern with late-fifteenth-century paintings of faces and costumes

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 16 to Chapter 3 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Letters, IV, 43, 55-56. G. H. Lewes's journal for 17 May 1862 reports: "On Wednesday we hired a Brougham for the day; went to the Printroom of the British Museum to Italian portraits of 15th cent" (Letters, IV, 34).

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