Hired to Depress: A Digital Scholarly Edition of William Blake's Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' DiscoursesMain MenuWho is William Blake?Just who is William Blake? And why does his scribbling in a book matter?Who is Sir Joshua Reynolds?Important FiguresTitle PageContents of The First VolumeDedication and To the KingSome Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua ReynoldsWritten by Edmond Malone, Esq.The First DiscourseBibliographyElizabeth Pottera6e9fb7ea6eda3e5063e2aee73ca5f372e99b8f3
LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY: CONTAINING HIS DISCOURSES, IDLERS, A JOURNEY TO FLANDERS AND HOLLAND, AND HIS COMMENTARY ON DU FRESNOY’S ART OF PAINTING
PRINTED FROM HIS REVISED COPIES,
(WITH HIS LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS,)
IN THREE VOLUMES.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE
AUTHOR, By EDMOND MALONE, Esq.
ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS,
THE SECOND EDITION CORRECTED,
—QUASI NON EA PRAXIPIAM AEIIS, QUÆ MIHI IPSI DESUNT, CICERO.
VOLUME THE FIRST.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. CABELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.