Issue contents
Editorial
A Regency rout
Articles
William Powell Frith's 'The Crossing Sweeper': an archetypal
image of mid-nineteenth-century London
by MARK BILLS
A Pre-Raphaelite partnership: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John
Robert Parsons
by COLIN FORD
Shorter notices
'A Divine Countenance': Gainsborough's portrait of his nephew
rediscovered
by SUSAN SLOMAN
An unpublished letter from Sir Thomas Lawrence to Delacroix
by MICHÈLE HANNOOSH
Dating Sickert's paintings of the New Bedford, Camden Town
by WENDY BARON
Obituary
Richard Wollheim (1923–2003)
by ANTONIA PHILLIPS
Book reviews
The Evolution of English Collecting: The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods, ed. E. Chaney
by ELIZABETH GOLDRING
Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War, J. Spraggon
by SIMON WATNEY
Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. Vol.I, N. Figgis and B. Rooley
by MARTIN BUTLIN
Joshua Reynolds. The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy, I. McIntyre
by JUDY EGERTON
The Black Paintings of Goya, J.J. Junquera
by NIGEL GLENDINNING
The Mattioli Collection. Masterpieces of the Italian Avant-garde, F. Fergonzi
by SIMONETTA FRAQUELLI
Publications received
Exhibition reviews
Pre-Raphaelite Vision
by ALASTAIR GRIEVE
Donald Judd
by LYNNE COOKE
English embroidery
by JENNIFER HARRIS
Drawing in Florence c.1600
by DAVID EKSERDJIAN
Christopher Wood
by FRANCES SPALDING
Jean Cocteau
by JAMES BEECHEY
Francis Bacon
by SARAH WHITFIELD
Bindo Altoviti
by EIKE D. SCHMIDT
Diane Arbus
by ROBERT SILBERMAN
Caravaggio
by CHRISTOPHER R. MARSHALL
Supplement
Recent acquisitions (2000–03) at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
In next month's issue
Decorative arts
Tapestries of the 'Triumphs of Petrarch'
Furniture by Brustolon
Maëlrondt, supplier of Sèvres to George IV
The decoration of Bernini's Fonseca chapel