The works of Jonathan Richardson
The Works of Jonathan Richardson is a 1792 London collection of writings on art and painting by the early eighteenth-century painter and critic Jonathan Richardson, with a memoir by Horace Walpole, issued for the trade by several booksellers. Its pictures are small engraved portrait heads of artists, mostly shown in profile or three-quarter view against plain grounds, with dark hatched backgrounds and fine line modelling. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal range of etched and engraved portraiture and its cropped oval or rectangular framing.
