Tabla de Contenidos: “…XX : La pittura del Settecento in Ighilterra e in Spagna (270) ; Hogarth (187) ; Joshua Reynolds (90) ; Gainsborough (108) ; George Romney (250) ; Wright of Derby (223) ; Johann Zoffany (237) ; Anton Raphael Mengs (221) ; Francisco Goya (2) ; Conclusione : Indici e regesti cronologici (284). - Bibliogr. general de los vols. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue -- Johnson before Boswell : the years of struggle -- Johnson before Boswell : fame at last -- Boswell before Johnson : setting out for the wide world -- Boswell before Johnson : the search for self -- The fateful meeting -- Boswell abroad -- The Club is born -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Edmund Burke -- David Garrick -- The spirit of mirth -- A new life at Streatham -- Boswell in Scotland-and Stratford -- Among the farthest Hebrides --The widening river -- Empire -- Adam Smith -- Edward Gibbon -- Infidels and believers -- Johnson nearing the end -- Boswell on the downhill slope -- Epilogue -- Appendix : members of the Club in its first twenty years…”

“…It explores the work of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and his rival Thomas Gainsborough, and the paintings of other artists involved in the formation of the Royal Academy of Arts - the organisation whose rules Constable and Turner would eventually break with spectacular results…”
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“…Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sowersby -- John Hunter: 1786 / Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Man-midwife: 1793 / Isaac Cruikshank -- Gout: 1799 / James Gillray -- George Washington in his last illness, attended by doctors Craik and Brown: ca. 1800 -- Diphtheria: 1802-1812 / Francisco Goya -- Anatomist: early nineteenth century / Thomas Rowlandson -- Showing the results of a cataract operation at the Hotel Dieu, Paris: Nineteenth century / Artist unknown -- William Harvey presenting a deer heart to his king: 1848 / Robert Hannah -- Amputation by Peter Parker: mid-nineteenth century / Lamqua…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…ETIENNE FALCONET:; 4. JOSHUA REYNOLDS:; 5. A. W. SCHLEGEL; 6. DAVID D'ANGERS; 7. …”