Retford, Kate, 1974-, The art of domestic life , 2006
- Title(s):
- 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.
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7206987
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- Table of contents
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-282) and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Art and society -- England -- History -- 18th century.Family -- England -- History -- 18th century.Family in art.Portrait painting, English -- 18th century.
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- '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.