Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Amateur Moment
Chapter I
George Knapton’s “Pictures In Oil Colours”
Chapter 2
The Antiquities Of Athens And Ionian Antiquities
Chapter 3
Richard Payne Knight’s “Expedition Into Sicily”
Chapter 4
Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Star And Garter” Pictures
Chapter 5
Richard Payne Knight’s Discourse On The Worship Of Priapus
Chapter 6
James Gillray’s “Cognoscenti” Caricatures
Chapter 7
Specimens Of Antient Sculpture (1809)
Conclusion
The Amateur Dethroned
Notes
Biographic Glossary
Bibliographic Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

“Elegantly written text provides a lively anthropological analysis … traces the rise and decline of the culture of curiosity exemplified by the gentleman amateur or dilettante.” —New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

Bruce Redford is University Professor and Professor of Art History and of English at Boston University. His books include Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lectures, 2001–2 (Oxford, 2002); the Hyde edition of The Letters of Samuel Johnson, 5 vols. (Princeton 1992–94); Venice and the Grand Tour (Yale, 1996).