Note 42 to Chapter 5 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.
On the portraiture in Felix Holt, see Richards, "The Use of the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth-Century Novel," pp. 391 -93; Peter Coveney, "Introduction" to Felix Holt, the Radical (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972), pp. 47-48; and Nicholas Rance, The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (London: Vision Press, 1975), p. 122.
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