The master painters of Britain
The Master Painters of Britain is a late nineteenth-century art survey by the critic Gleeson White, published in London by Caxton in 1890 for readers interested in British painting. Its plates are monochrome halftone reproductions of paintings, several printed sideways on the page, showing seascapes, a dark interior with a figure at a table, a group portrait, and a seated pair with a book. A designer might take their tonal range and dark, moody compositions as references for atmospheric black-and-white work.
