Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts
Horace Walpole's 1826 London edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England, printed by W. Nicol at the Shakspeare Press for John Major, gathers biographical notes on English artists, engravers and gardeners. Its pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of portrait busts, mostly men in eighteenth-century wigs, cravats and coats, with dense hatched shading that a designer could borrow for period character studies.
