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Mary Shelley's portrait by Richard Rothwell, shown at the Royal Academy in 1840, accompanied by lines from Percy Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam calling her a "child of love and light".



Oval portrait of a woman wearing a shawl and a thin circlet around her head. It is painted on a flax coloured background.
Reginald Easton's miniature of Mary Shelley is allegedly drawn from her death mask. 



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