Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists
A 1826 London art-history compilation by Horace Walpole, James Dallaway, George Vertue and Ralph Wornum, written for readers interested in painting and its practitioners in England. The pictures are small wood-engraved portraits of seventeenth-century English painters, rendered in fine parallel hatching with long flowing wigs and loose collars. A designer might take from them the dense, tonal line work of period engraving and the way hatching models soft curls and fabric folds.
