Portraying Pregnancy Aviation skills / piloting a tractor stacking hay bales

a tractor stacking hay bales in summer

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Colm Tóibín

Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out

Portraying Pregnancy Aviation skills / piloting a tractor stacking hay balesThough many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy considers the different ways in which a sitter's pregnancy was, or was not, visibly represented to the viewer. Over a span of more than five hundred years, art historian Karen Hearn looks at representations of