Britton, John [Editor]: The fine arts of the English school: illustrated by a series of engravings from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists ; with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays (London, 1812) [Cicognara, 14]

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EARL OF ARGYLE IN PRISON:

PAINTED BY

JAMES NORTH COTE, ESQ. R. A.

FOK THE

RIGHT HON. EARL GREY.

The following letter of animadversions on this picture, the subject, and on
certain points relating to the Fine Arts, has been addressed by Mr. Hoare to the
painter, and is now published, as an appropriate dissertation to accompany the
annexed print. The learned and elegant writer is already well known to all the
true lovers of the Fine Arts and literature of this country; and the present essay
will certainly not detract from the fame which he has justly acquired; but a
perusal of it will make us wish that his leisure and health may enable him to
prosecute those useful and interesting lucubrations which have already appeared
in the " Academic Annals;" " The Artist;" and " An Inquiry into the Arts of
Design," &c.

To JAMES NORTHCOTE, Esq. R.A.

dear sir,

Mr. Britton has requested of me my opinion of your picture of the Earl
of Argyle; and I am inclined to accede to his request, from a sense of respect,
which I entertain for his truly patriotic effort, to establish a regular publication
of engravings from the most-approved works of our own school. That I may
deliver my sentiments on the occasion fairly, without excess of censure or