Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists and incidental notes on other arts
Horace Walpole's 1762 Anecdotes of Painting in England, printed by Thomas Farmer at his Strawberry Hill press, is a scholarly art history for connoisseurs and collectors, drawing on George Vertue's notes on English painters. Its engraved portraits are oval-framed head-and-shoulders studies of artists, with plain white margins and captions beneath, showing tonal line hatching that a designer could borrow for period portrait framing.
