Paul R. Deslandes - The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham

Paul R. Deslandes

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Published 2021

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77161-8 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80531-3 (e-book)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226805313.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Deslandes, Paul R., 1965 author.

Title: The culture of male beauty in Britain : from the first photographs to David Beckham / Paul R. Deslandes.

Description: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021010997 | ISBN 9780226771618 (cloth) | ISBN 9780226805313 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Masculine beauty (Aesthetics)England. | Beauty cultureEngland.

Classification: LCC HQ1090.27 .D485 2021 | DDC 155.3/320941dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021010997

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

For Jeff

Drawing of the Cockney from a chapter by Douglas William Jerrold, in Heads of the People or Portraits of the English, vol. 1 (London: Robert Tyas, 1840)

Drawing of the Midshipman from a chapter by Edward Howard, in Heads of the People or Portraits of the English(1840)

Illustration titled Malignity from Thomas Woolnoth, The Study of the Human Face: Illustrated by Twenty-Six Full-Page Steel Engravings(London: William Tweedie, 1865)

Physiognomic and phrenological portrait from Frank Ellis, Key to Heads, Faces, and Hands(Blackpool: Ellis Family, 1902)

Charles Keene, Artful!, Punch, or, the London Charivari42 (January 1, 1862)

Julia Margaret Camerons portrait of Henry John Stedman Cotton (1867)

Photograph of Jabez Hogg making a portrait in Richard Beards studio (1843)

To secure a pleasing Portrait is everything, a cartoon from Cuthbert Bede [Edward Bradley], Photographic Pleasures Popularly Portrayed with Pen and Pencil(London: T. McLean, 1855)

John Leech, Photographic Beauties, Punch, or, the London Charivari34 (June 19, 1858)

Photograph of the Taunt and Co. storefront, 9 and 10 Broad Street, Oxford (ca. 1870s)

Various nineteenth-century cartes de visitecontrasting age and youth

Hills and Saunders, carte de visiteof William Fleming Blaine (Cambridge, 1878) and carte de visiteof Arthur B. Sole (Cambridge, ca. 187377)

Hills and Saunders, carte de visiteof Trinity College, Cambridge Boat Club (1875) and carte de visiteof Oxford Varsity Eight (1882)

Elliott and Fry, carte de visite