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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson

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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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The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Skin shiningly white”: Ingres paints Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s word picture in “The Turkish Bath,” 1862 (The Louvre)…

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Lady Mary in Pictures

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Lady Mary in Pictures

Before her bout with smallpox Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a famously beautiful woman. She was painted many times, before and after…

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How I Came to Write about Smallpox

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How I Came to Write about Smallpox

I’m often asked how I came to write about smallpox. I found Lady Mary in a literary footnote fantasizing about Circassian slaves…

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