The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting, in the year 1771 from an original drawing in the possession of Robt. Sayer / [graphic]

The exhibition room of the Royal Academy in Pall Mall is crowded with visitors conversing or looking at the three walls covered with pictures up to the cornice which supports a top light. The fashionably dressed crowd hold catalogues, stoop to look at pictures, or discuss pictures with their companions. One older woman and a boy, looking dejected, sit on a bench in the center of the crowd of art connoisseurs