Note 77 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.
Edgar Wind, "Humanitatsidee und heroisiertes Portrat in der englischen Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts," in England und die Antike: Vortrage der Bibliothek Warburg 1930-31, ed. Fritz Saxl (Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1932), pp. 222-24 and Tafel XXIX. Another excellent example of the motif, not cited by Wind, is Reynold's Mrs. Abington as the Comic Muse (1764-69), now at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. This was shown at the National Portrait Exhibition of 1867, which George Eliot attended (Letters, IV, 363-64). See Ellis K. Waterhouse, The James A. DeRothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Paintings (London: The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, 1967), pp. 67-69.
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