Panorama, the online journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Entitled The Time Has Now Gone by When Things of This Nature Are to Be Hidden from the Public : Mediating Bodily and Archival Violence, the article describes her encounter with a portrait of Martha Ann Banks, a young African American woman abused by her former enslaver, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Drawing from her dissertation research, Cross offers insights into Banks life and the production of her image, including how Banks image was circulated and framed through its use as a wood engraving in