Contains commentary on numerous aspects of Wilson and his relationship to the Grand Style, the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy; also on the following individual paintings, all illustrated:
P15A The Cock Tavern, Cheam Common, Surrey, UK Government Art Collection;
P56B Rome from the Villa Madama, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;
P66 Landscape Capriccio on the Via Aemilia, Private Collection, New York;
P89A The Thames near Marble Hill, Twickenham; P90 The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven;
P134 Moor Park, distant View, Private Collection, England;
P152 Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
P162 Cicero with his Friend Atticus and Brother Quintus at his Villa at Arpinum, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
