Note 59 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.
Left: Sir Godfrey Kneller, John Locke. Plate 12 in print version. Click upon image for larger picture.
The "portrait of Locke" is most likely to be Kneller's of 1698, of which at least fourteen different engravings exist; see Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1912), III, 79-81. Dorothea might have seen the version by R. Graves (no. 13 in O'Donoghue) which appeared as the frontispiece to Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (London: J. F. Dove, 1828). The Leweses owned a copy of this edition; see Baker, The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Library, #1311.
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