Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists and incidental notes on other arts
Anecdotes of Painting in England is a 1765 art-historical book by Horace Walpole, with plates engraved after George Vertue's sketches, printed at Strawberry Hill for readers interested in English painters. The four portrait engravings show bust-length or half-length sitters in oval or rectangular frames, with plain ruled backgrounds, fine parallel hatching for shadow, and small captions below naming each artist, offering a designer examples of formal period portrait framing and engraved tonal modelling.
