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'...

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Published in:	Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 3 - 33
Main Author:	Pelling, Madeleine
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Spring2019
Subjects:	Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Women collectors Portraits Catalogs
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