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Subject

Ugliness

Images

  • Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.
  • Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.
  • Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • An attractive woman courting a strange looking man; suggesting that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Coloured lithograph, 1833.
  • A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

    | Date: 2007
    • Pictures
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    A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.

    | Reference: 10741i
    • Books

    Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture / Naomi Baker.

    Baker, Naomi, 1974- | Date: 2010
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    Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.

    Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. | Date: 1892 | Reference: 14295i
    • Books

    Look at my ugly face : myths and musings on beauty and other perilous obsessions with women's appearance / Sara Halprin.

    Halprin, Sara. | Date: 1995
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