There has been a new interest recently in the intersection of the visual and the verbal in Samuel Richardson's novels, from his use of spatial and pictorial imagery, to the contemporary illustrations to Pamela. This lavishly-illustrated book goes one step further, considering the novels in the context of 18th-century portraiture. impressive ... illuminating ... Reading this book sends one back not only to Richardson's etxts but to other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works with renewed ways of seeing, as well as reading, the novel