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ISBN: 9780300087338 - The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Ingamells, John Edgcumbe, John

ISBN: 9780300087338
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Yale University Press


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Sir Joshua Reynolds could never have anticipated an edition of his letters; he once told Boswell that 'If I felt the same reluctance in taking a Pencil in my hand as I do a pen I should be as bad a Painter as I am a correspondent.' Yet although his surviving letters are those of a busy man…

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A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all accompanied by detailed notes.
 
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