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The marble index: Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain

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Contents

Introduction: addressing the sculptural portrait -- The place of sculptural portraiture -- Sculptural conventions and meaning -- Setting up the bust and the statue -- Making images -- A portrait sculptor, his sitters and his viewers: Roubiliac and his career -- Celebrating the illustrious -- Groups, networks and connections -- Contemporary heads.

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    New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014

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    • 1700 - 1799
    • 1700-1775

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    • 0300204345
    • 9780300204346

Annotations / title notes

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    Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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