Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., LL.D. F.R.S. F.S.A. &c. late president of the Royal Academy : comprising original anecdotes of many distinguished persons, his contemporaries, and a brief analysis of his discourses : to which are added, Varieties on art
Northcote's 1813 London memoir of painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, printed by Henry Colburn for an educated readership of art lovers and collectors, is illustrated with engraved and mezzotint portraits of Reynolds's sitters and contemporaries. The pictures are dark, tonal portrait prints of women and men in period dress, with a designer able to draw on their soft shading, oval vignettes and formal costume details.
