7. “Like a Bird Before a Snake”: The Miniature and the Photograph

Robin Jaffee Frank

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7. "Like a Bird Before a Snake": The Miniature and the PhotographRobin Jaffee FrankLove and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures~One of the first scholars of miniature painting in America observed in 1927, "The miniature in the presence of the photograph was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated—even to the fatal point of imitation—and then it was swallowed."Wehle 1927, 69. In fact, the...AuthorRobin Jaffee FrankPublisherYale University Art GalleryPublisherYale University PressCopyright© 2000 by Yale University Art GalleryRelated print edition pages: pp.277-303 https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00078.011 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19057Copy Chapter subject tags:Portrait miniaturesPortrait Painting, AmericanPortrait photography

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