Hand-book for the National Gallery : containing 1., a numerical catalogue of the pictures, and remarks : 2., alphabetical list of the painters, their chronology, their schools, and references to their pictures
A 1844 London guide to the National Gallery by Henry Cole, a catalogue of its paintings and painters for visitors to the collection. The single picture is a dark engraved crowd scene: a robed preacher gestures toward a kneeling figure among a gathered crowd beneath trees and a distant town. A designer could take its dense, crosshatched black-and-white massing and its grouped, gesturing figures as a model for dramatic crowd composition.
