A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world, John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific printmaker of his time. Smith not only produced nearly 400 prints--about 130 of his own design and the others by such noted British artists as Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, and Joseph Wright of Derby--he was also appointed "Mezzotinto Engraver" to the Prince of Wales and became an impresario of the print-publishing trade...