THOMAS LAWRENCE'S CONSUMPTIVE CHIC: REINTERPRETING LADY MANNERS'S HECTIC FLUSH IN 1794.

The article discusses the aestheticization of tuberculosis in the eighteenth century with the help of the artist Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the English woman Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners. Topics include the aesthetic dimension of tuberculosis and its connection to the social elite and creativity in the eighteenth century and how Lawrence's depiction of Lady Manners' tubercular beauty added to the rhetoric surrounding fashionable diseases and nervous disorders.