Note 54 to Chapter 8 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 recognition scene in The Ambassadors, see Garrett, Scene and Symbol, pp. 122-23. On James's use of picturesque landscapes in general, see Richards, "Henry James's Use of the Visual Arts," pp. 81-87.
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