An illustrative supplement to Pilkington's Dictionary of painters : consisting of biographical sketches, and one hundred and thirty-nine portraits
A supplement of biographical sketches and 139 engraved portraits of painters, compiled from Horace Walpole's writings to accompany Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters, printed for John Stockdale in London in 1805, for collectors and connoisseurs. The plates are stipple and line portrait busts of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artists in oval or architectural frames, offering wigs, drapery folds, hatched shading and ready-made cartouche surrounds.
