_Portrait of Baskerville_ (Vol. iv., p. 211.).--For the information of
your correspondent W. CORNISH, I am enabled to inform him that there is
a beautiful portrait of that celebrated typographist Baskerville in the
possession of the Messrs. Longman of Paternoster Row, and painted too by
that most exquisite of English artists, Gainsborough. Of this portrait
there is also a private plate (copper), from which I happen to possess,
through the kindness of a very old friend, an impression to add to a
collection of Worcestershire portraits.
A former correspondent, Vol. iv., p. 40., states that Mr. Merridew
assured him there was no portrait of Baskerville; but Mr. M., in his
catalogue of _Engraved Warwickshire Portraits_, p. 4., notices a
"woodcut" from an original picture in the possession of the late Thomas
Knott, Esq.