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V. Going Turkish in Eighteenth-Century London: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Portraits
Marcia Pointon
Description: Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England
Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England
~The full-length portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu attributed to Jonathan Richardson shows her regally attired in Turkish style, accompanied by a black servant, and with a...
Author
Marcia Pointon
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1993 by Marcia Pointon
Related print edition pages: pp.141-157
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00062.010
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19088
Chapter subject tags:England--Social life and customs--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryMontagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762Clothing and dress--Ottoman influencesArt and society--Britain--History--18th centurySlavery in art--Britain--18th century

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V. Going Turkish in Eighteenth-Century London: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Portraits