The master painters of Britain
The Master Painters of Britain, edited by Gleeson White and published in London by Caxton in 1890, is a survey of British painters reproduced as halftone plates for a general art-reading public. The plates here are photographic reproductions of oil paintings: a rustic cottage scene with figures, a crowded interior with a seated central figure, a stable with a white horse, and a wide panoramic view of a harbour with masted ships. A designer might take from them the tonal range of Victorian oil painting, with dark interiors broken by bright light and small figures set against broad landscape and shipping.
