Claim: Burnet Reading created a set of etchings of "Characters to Illustrate Shakespeare", but did not engrave any other items before working for the Earl of Pomfret as a drawing and riding master.
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.