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 | Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) (2nd Edition) by Marcia R. Pointon Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-300-07368-2 / 0300073682 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-07368-3 / 9780300073683 England in the 18th century possessed a thriving portrait culture which was part of a network of visual communication that encompassed print-collecting, popular performance and figurative acts of speech. In this book, Marcia Pointon demonstrates how portraiture provided mechanisms both for construct | |