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1.1John Roque, Plan of Wrest Park, 1735. Bedfordshire & Luton Archives Service (Z50/104/1).
1.2Wrestiana, “A Mock-Heroic Historical Romance,” p. 187 (facsimile reproduction). Bedfordshire & Luton Archives Service (FAC 11/2). The location of the original is unknown.
1.3Susanna Highmore, “Richardson reading the MS History of Sir Cha. Grandison at North End,” c. 1753. Reproduced with permission of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
2.1Katherine Read, Elizabeth Carter, c. 1765. Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of Dr Johnson’s House.
2.2Artist unknown, George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, c. 1756. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
3.1William Shenstone, “The Sanctuary” and illustration of ruined priory gate, from illustrated manuscript of poems. Wellesley College Library, Special Collections.
3.2William Shenstone, “The King-fisher,” stanzas 5 and 6 and illustration, from illustrated manuscript of poems. Wellesley College Library, Special Collections.
3.3Artist unknown (possibly traced from William Lowe and keyed in Robert Dodsley’s hand), a plan of the Leasowes, accompanying Joseph Spence, “The Round of Mr Shenstone’s Paradise.” The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (HM 30312).
4.1William Shenstone, The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq. (1764), title page. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (RB 106624).
5.1Fashion plate and foldout plate of The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, after Richard Samuel, in The Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum-Book for 1778 [1777?]. Used with permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library (shelfmark: 193–495q).
5.2James Barry, “The Distribution of Premiums in the Society of Arts,” from A Series of Etchings by James Barry, Esq. from his … Paintings in the Great Room of the Society of Arts (1792). © Tate, London 2015.
6.1Thomas Gray, A Supplement to the Tour through Great-Britain, containing a Catalogue … By the Late Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, etc. (1787). The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (RB 304705).
7.1Mary Capell, Commonplace Book, “To a Lady on her love of Poetry. June 8, 1747. By Mr. C. Y—e.” Reproduced with the permission of Special Collections, Leeds University Library (Ms Lt 119, ff. 100v-101).
7.2Eliza Chapman, “Poetry, Selected & Original. 1788 & 1789,” frontispiece. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Bodl. Ms. Montagu e.14).
7.3Eliza Chapman, “Poetry, Selected & Original. 1788 & 1789,” ff. 49v-50. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Bodl. Ms. Montagu e.14).
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