Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500453Scope and ContentImages of portraits of young men and boys painted in the 18th century, some artists and subjects unidentified. Artists include Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Opie, Angelica Kauffmann, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, George Romney, Dmitry Levitsky, AR Mengs, Antoine-Jean Gros, John Hoppner, Jean Antoine Laurent, Joseph Wright of Derby, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough. Some images in the folder are copies of images sourced and held in other folders. Images are in formats including black and white and colour photocopies, print outs from web pages, colour plates (cut from catalogues). Some sheets have annotations by GG. The folder includes information about the artists and artworks, some in German; Sotheby's auction catalogue, 14 June 2001: The Dutton Family by John Zoffany, with pages interleaved; one page handwritten notes on verso of typescript GG "Revised Schedule of Journeys Thursday 27 June" [2002] . Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Young men in art; PortraitureAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0040
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - 18th Century Portraits (c.2001-2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500453]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344423
