Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters
Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters by William Beckford, published in London by William Clarke in 1824, a volume of short lives of artists for a general reader interested in painting. The single picture is a loose pen-and-ink caricature of a hunched, grotesque figure with a tall hat-like head, sketched in quick hatching over a stained cream page, suggesting how a designer might use expressive caricature and ink wash.
