Drawing from life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House) [graphic]

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Title: Drawing from life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House) [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 1 Jany. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "Scene within the drawing school at the Royal Academy; a male life model poses while the academicians sit in a semi circle drawing, a large lamp above model directs light onto the subject; busts and other sculptures line walls of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 1.
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 9.
Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.7 x 29 cm, on sheet 24.6 x 30 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
Collection Title: V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Collection Date: [London] : R. Ackermann's repository of arts, no. 101 Strand, [1808-10]

Genre: Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1808
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1808
Material: aquatint with etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): London (England)
England
London.
Subject (Name): Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Somerset House (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Subjects: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Somerset House (London, England)
London (England) > Pictorial works
Interiors > England > London
England > London > 1808
J. Whatman > 1808
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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