The art of domestic life : family portraiture in eighteenth-century England / Kate Retford.
Published / Created:
New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
ix, 294 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005028456.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-282) and index.
Contents:
'A sort of sex in souls' : marriage and the pendant portrait -- 'Delicious harmony' : marriage and the double portrait -- 'A title of so much tenderness' : the art of motherhood -- 'Think not the nursery's care beneath your notice' : the art of fatherhood -- Family history and the politics of dynasty -- The battle of the pictures.
Subject Terms:
Portrait painting, English -- 18th century. | Family in art. | Family -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Art and society -- England -- History -- 18th century.