Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists by Horace Walpole. With additions by James Dallaway, and Vertue's catalogue of engravers who have been born or have resided in England.
An 1888 London reprint of Horace Walpole's history of English painting, with additions by James Dallaway and a catalogue of engravers, aimed at art historians and collectors. Its pictures are small wood-engraved portraits of painters and a king, drawn in fine parallel hatching on cream paper, one in an oval frame, showing how period portraits were rendered in black line for print.
