click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

Natalie Lawrence uncovers fascinating other-worldly natural history, creatures that embody our anxieties and our irrational ...

was painted from life for the frontispiece of her autobiographical book, Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee... The portrait shows Lee seated and simply dressed, with a quill in ...