A guide through the Royal Academy
A guide to the 1781 Royal Academy exhibition in London, written by Giuseppe Baretti with an introduction by Samuel Johnson and printed by Thomas Cadell for the Academy's visitors. The single plate is a dark engraved portrait of a bewigged man in a dark coat, set on a pale tissue-toned page with a generous margin; a designer might take from it the restrained tonal range of eighteenth-century portrait engraving and the framing of a single figure within a blank page.
