Caption:
Joseph Addison, English politician and writer, c1703-1712 (1906). From the original painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Addison (1672-1719) was a friend of Richard Steele and Jonathan Swift and edited The Spectator with Steele in 1711-1712. A print from Queen Anne, by Herbert Paul, Goupil and Co, London, 1906.