Selling the Duchess: Narratives of Celebrity in A Catalogue of the Portland Museum (1786).
The article focuses on Margaret Cavendish Bentinck duchess of Portland's identity as a private collector and curator. It mentions about engraved portrait of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland pasted into Horace Walpole's personal copy of the Catalogue. It also examines how the duchess'...
| Publicado en: | Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 3 - 33 |
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University of Chicago Press
Spring2019
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on Margaret Cavendish Bentinck duchess of Portland's identity as a private collector and curator. It mentions about engraved portrait of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland pasted into Horace Walpole's personal copy of the Catalogue. It also examines how the duchess's identity as a private collector extinguished at her death, was subsequently reinvented, positioning her instead as a curiosity to be bought and sold. |
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