Portraiting Picturing Women Home  
Juxtaposition by
Susan Shifrin, Curator

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Miss Carey Thomas.

Nude Adorned.

Introduction

What connections can you make between the use of fabric in these images and the representation of women’s bodies? What connections can you make between the use of fabric and the creation of identity within the images? Whose identity (or identities) is being represented in each image?

What connections can you make between these images and other portraits of women you see on this site or have seen elsewhere? How are they different from other portraits of women? How are they similar?


Shift.

Janthe Lady Ellenborough.