The Elements of Life - Biography and Portrait-painting in Stuart and Georgian England - Paperback - 1992

This study establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts - visual and verbal portraiture - that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost completely unexplored. A number of authors and artists, such as Boswell and Hogarth, are considered.
Year of publication: 1992
Pagination: 330 pages, colour frontispiece, 38 pp black and white plates
Format: Paperback
Serie: Clarendon Paperbacks