Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 · London : Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major · leaf 322
and engravedthe best, in the series of Oxford Almanacs.] § [The landscapes etched by Francis Vivares have scarcelybeen surpassed.] [I [Thomas Major engraved the Ruins of Pastum, or Posido-nia, FoL 1768.] [Sir Robert Strange, was born in 1721, in the OrkneyIslands, of a good Highland family 5 and… … Sim IBL(Q)BHSIRT ItlATOIc LONDON.Published byJolin Ma-jor. /•.<;. Flefit. Street. REIGN OF GEORGE I. AND II. 271 trary. When I have named him, I have men-tioned the art at its highest period in Britain. Oct. 10th, 1762. became a pupil of Le Bas. In 1751, he first established himselfin the…
