Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection

by Margaret D. Stetz

This lavishly illustrated volume offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware. This study highlights the connections between the images of writers' and artists' faces that circulated through the British periodical press, through exhibition spaces in London, and through book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611493285
• ISBN13: 9781611493283
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 158 Pages