A Victorian Fashion in Edwardian Portraits: The Paisley Shawl in Paintings by Francis H. Newbery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: In this article, I examine the paisley shawl within and through two paintings, Portrait of a Devonian (ca. 1908) and The Paisley Shawl (ca. 1910), by Glasgow School of Art director Francis H. Newbery (1855–1946). The paintings feature the same sitter and were completed decades after the shawl declined as a feature of British fashion. Using primary sources to expound upon the sitter’s identity, and drawing from the artist’s biography, I argue that these portraits testify to both sitter’s and artist’s nostalgia for an iconic Victorian fashion and manufacturing industry. As I explain, the shawl had varied meanings for different people and in different contexts. These included femininity, family, and life passages, as well as patriotism, a successful alliance between art and manufacturing, and Britain’s technological triumph over other parts of the globe.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".