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.
Horace Walpole's 1888 London reprint of his Anecdotes of Painting in England, with additions by James Dallaway, is a art-historical survey of English painters aimed at collectors and scholars. The four pictures are oval-framed portrait engravings and wood engravings of 17th and 18th century English artists in wigs, collars and loose coats, showing how engraved portraits build tone from dense hatching and how oval vignettes and ornate cartouche frames can organise a page.
