Sam Smiles.

Sam Smiles. judgment Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain, 1770-1830 Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2000 Pp xi, 216 $8495 ISBN 1-84014-636-2

In this wide-ranging examination of illustrated volumes and print series, Sam Smiles makes pair claims for the epistemological status of images. His larger claim is that British prints made in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries betray a of the present day cultural emphasis on the relationship between vision and cognition, wherein "seeing becomes a vital component in the acquisition of knowledge, almost a form of

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