Stephanie O'Rourke is senior lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews and author of 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge University Press) and the upcoming 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780–1850' (University of Chicago Press)

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