Chapter 3 introduces Boydell’s Shakspeare Gallery [sic], which opened on the premises of anthology editor Robert Dodsley’s former bookshop. This gallery served as a business model for several other “literary galleries” that welcomed spectators in to see grand-style paintings of literary subjects. These galleries institutionalized the sister arts by selling prints of paintings and illustrated editions of canonical literary works. Through a careful examination of their inexpensive gallery catalogues, which were literary anthologies (not traditional descriptions of artworks), I show how these institutions inadvertently privileged reading over seeing in policies and practices that governed both artists’ composition and viewers’ critical responses.