Silvester Harding

The Hardings published many prints of subjects designed by Silvester and engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, Jean Marie Delattre, William Nelson Gardiner and others.

Their first publication of this kind was Shakespeare illustrated by an Assemblage of Portraits and Views appropriated to the whole suite of our Author's Historical Dramas, consisting of 150 plates, issued in thirty numbers 1789–1793.

They produced also the Memoirs of Count Grammont (1793); The Economy of Human Life (1795) with plates by Gardiner from designs by Harding; Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora (1796) translated by William Robert Spencer; and John Dryden's Fables (1797), both illustrated with plates from drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk.

The first volume of their extensive series of historical portraits, The Biographical Mirrour, with text by Francis Godolphin Waldron, appeared in 1795.

The largest of his watercolour copies, Charles II receiving the first pine-apple cultivated in England from Rose, the gardener at Dawney Court, Bucks, the seat of the Duchess of Cleveland, from a picture at Strawberry Hill, was engraved by R. Grave in 1823.