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Item Number: 113781
Title: The Look of Love : Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
Author: Boettcher, Graham C
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907804014
Description: London, Birmingham: Giles, in association with the Birmingham Museum of Art, 2012. 19cm., hardcover, 207pp. with numerous color illus. Summary: This lavishly illustrated volume explores the fascinating and little-known subject of 'lover's eyes,' hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewellery and given as tokens of affection, or created to memorialize a deceased loved one. According to popular lore, the phenomenon began in 1785, when the Prince of Wales secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert with a miniature of his own eye. This romantic gesture inspired a fad among the aristocracy for exchanging eye portraits mounted in a wide variety of settings including brooches, rings, lockets and toothpick cases. This book accompanies an exhibition by the same title organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the largest exhibition of its kind to date, with over 75 examples drawn from the private collection of Dr. and Mrs. David A. Skier of Birmingham, Alabama.
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