Of course the pictorial miniatures of the fashionable Richard Cosway, with their light, bright scheme of draughtsmanship, their dainty tints, their soft and sinuous graces, their delicate decision of character, were exceedingly happy in the stipple-engraver’s hands. In colour the prints had a charm of reticence which was peculiarly persuasive. Several of the most engaging were done by the artistic Condé, such at _Mrs. Bouverie_, _Mrs. Tickell_, _Mrs. Jackson_, _Mrs. Fitzherbert_, _Mrs. Robinson as “Melania”,_ and the beautiful youth _Horace Beckford_; J. S. Agar did delicately _Harriet, Lady Cockerell, as a Gipsy Woman_, _Lady Heathcote_, and _Mrs. Duff_; Cardon, with his distinguished touch, engraved the charming _Madame Récamier_, Schiavonetti the _Mrs. Maria Cosway_ and _Michel and Isabella Oginesy_, Bartolozzi the _Mrs. Harding_, Mariano Bovi the _Lady Diana Sinclair_, and Charles White the pretty _Infancy_ (Lord Radnor’s children). Only less fashionable than Cosway’s were the miniatures of Samuel Shelley. In portrait-manner, and in fanciful composition, Reynolds was his model and inspiration, but the result, in spite of high finish and a certain charm of elegance, was a very little Reynolds, for Shelley’s drawing generally left something for criticism. Naturally, miniature-painting found happy interpretation in coloured stipple, and Shelley was fortunate in his engravers, especially Caroline Watson, with her exquisite delicacy and brilliantly minute finish, and William Nutter, who was equally at home with the styles of many painters.