%0 Journal Article
%A Krysmanski, Bernd
%D 2001
%F artdok:8049
%J British journal for eighteenth century studies
%K Ralph, Benjamin /  Thornhill, James / Raphael Cartoons / The Idler / Line of Beauty / Four Heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court /connoisseur / manuals on the art of drawing / pyramidal principle
%P 15-32
%R 10.11588/artdok.00008049
%T Benjamin Ralph's 'School of Raphael' (1759) : praise for Hogarth and a direct source for Reynolds
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8049/
%V 24
%X The author suggests that Joshua Reynolds’ Idler essay no. 76 (29 September 1759) was not a direct response to the theories promoted by William Hogarth in his Analysis of Beauty (1753) as hitherto presumed, but a response to the Hogarth supporter, Benjamin Ralph and his book, The School of Raphael (May 1759).