"Members of the Royal Academy, gathered to draw from a model, a young man, being positioned on the right; most are conversing; in the foreground sits another model; on the wall, portraits of Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser; behind the group, classical busts and casts, including an écorché; after the painting in the Royal Collection."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For key to this print, see Royal Academy Catalogue vol. I, nr. 300., John Chaloner Smith lists the artists portrayed., and Mounted on secondary paper support.
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer at No. 53, in Fleet Street, as the Act directs
A ragged, grinning chimney-sweep posed for his portrait in front of a round table in an elegant room. The artist is a young woman in fashionable mob cap, sitting on the opposite side of the table, palette in her left hand and adding finishing touches to her work. A painting above on the wall shows a group of dancing satyrs
Description:
Title engraved below image., One line of quote below title: The proper study of mankind is man., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: chimney sweeps -- Artists: paintress -- Female dress, 1772 -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes -- Table-top easel with box -- Furnishings: carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Travesties: travesty of artists -- Literature: quotation from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1772, by W. Humphrey, St. Martins Lane
