Claim: Burnet Reading created a set of etchings of "Characters to illustrate Shakespeare"; he also engraved plates in "Collections of Portraits to illustrate Granger's 'History of England,." as well as worked as a drawing and riding master for the Earl of Pomfret.
Evidence: In 1820 a set of twelve etchings by Reading, from drawings by Mortimer, of "Characters to illustrate Shakespeare," was published by T. and H. Rodd; and many of the plates in that firm's "Collection of Portraits to illustrate Granger's "History of England,"" 1820 and 1822, were engraved by him. He was employed as drawing and riding master by the Earl of Pomfret at Windsor.