David Wilkie, George Eliot, and Genre Painting -- Bibliographical Information

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 22 to Chapter 7 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.

On the importance of Wilkie to the genre tradition, see Odette Aubrat, La peinture de genre en Angleterre de la mort de Hogarth (1764) au Preraphaelisme (1850) (Paris: Maison du livre francais, 1935), and Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland Gower, Sir David Wilkie (London: George Bell, 1902).

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