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
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 56 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
Art exhibitions, Galleries & museums, Hats, Paintings, and Spectators
"A group of men and women conversing near tall, marble pillars, inside a richly decorated hall; in the background are more open rooms, with figures, and statues set within niches on the wall; lettered with names of artists and publisher in three labels in the lower margin, scratched letter proof before title."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Intérieur du Panthéon de Londres
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "From an original drawing in the possession of Robt. Sayer."--Below title., and Mounted to 51 x 62 cm.
A young Macaroni with an elaborate wig and enormous bow at his neck sits in an artist's studio as his portrait is painted by an artist, a caricature of Richard Cosway R.A., with an equally elaborate hair style. Both are fashionably dressed. The artist sits at his easel, his hand filled with paint brushes and an palette; the canvas faces the viewer so that the portrait is visible. On the wall in the background are two portraits, one of another dandy and one of a woman in an elaborate hat; the paintings hang on either side of a round mirror
Alternative Title:
Billy Dimple sitting for his picture
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved by Earlom after drawing by Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Earlier state, without plate number. Cf. No. 4520 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: illegible name (2 lines).
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A young Macaroni with an elaborate wig and enormous bow at his neck sits in an artist's studio as his portrait is painted by an artist, a caricature of Richard Cosway R.A., with an equally elaborate hair style. Both are fashionably dressed. The artist sits at his easel, his hand filled with paint brushes and an palette; the canvas faces the viewer so that the portrait is visible. On the wall in the background are two portraits, one of another dandy and one of a woman in an elaborate hat; the paintings hang on either side of a round mirror
Alternative Title:
Billy Dimple sitting for his picture
Description:
Title from item., Engraved by Earlom after drawing by Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Later state, with altered imprint statement and added plate numbering. For an earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, published as the act directs, 25 Sepr. 1772", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.09.25.01.1+, Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792. See: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers., Plate numbered '257' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: round mirror -- Portrait paintings -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, Map & Printsellers, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
