Death Masks: Facing the Dead

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/embed/73334aef0b415d42a07b

Dr Ruth Scobie looks at a portrait by Johan Zoffany of the eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, and asks what the picture's notorious wiglessness has to do with the actor's control of his extraordinary contemporary celebrity, in a TORCH Bite-Sized Talk at the Ashmolean Museum's Live Friday: Framed! event.

For more on this portrait see this post at the Oxford Celebrity Research Network blog.

 

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