TY - JOUR N2 - 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). EP - 32 AV - public VL - 24 Y1 - 2001/// ID - artdok8049 KW - Ralph KW - Benjamin / Thornhill KW - 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 UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8049/ SP - 15 TI - Benjamin Ralph's 'School of Raphael' (1759) : praise for Hogarth and a direct source for Reynolds A1 - Krysmanski, Bernd JF - British journal for eighteenth century studies ER -