Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson
The image bloomed upon his canvas: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish robes, by Jonathan Richardson, c. 1726 (Private Collection)…
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“Skin shiningly white”: Ingres paints Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s word picture in “The Turkish Bath,” 1862 (The Louvre)…
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Smallpox: the “Speckled Monster”
“The speckled monster” is an old name for smallpox. Photo by J. B. Byles, in T. F. Ricketts, “The Diagnosis of Smallpox” (London, 1908)…
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