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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.

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 · 1888 · London, S. Sonnenschein and Lowrey · 27 pictures

A 1888 London reprint of Horace Walpole's history of English painting, with additions by James Dallaway, aimed at readers of art history and biography. Its pictures are small black-and-white engraved portraits of seventeenth-century English painters in full wigs and loose collars, rendered in dense hatching and fine line. A designer might take from them the crosshatched shading, flowing periwig curls, and the tight oval vignette format.

Painting -- England · Painters -- England

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