Note 12 to Chapter 6 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.
See Emblem and Expression, pp. 202-03; Edgar Wind, "The Revolution of History Painting," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 2 (1938), 116-27; Charles Mitchell, "Benjamin West's 'Death of General Wolfe' and the Popular History Piece," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 7 (1944), 20-33; Robert Rosenblum, Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967); and Theodore Ziolkowski, Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), p. 11.
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