"Bottom sits in an arm-chair directed to the left, wearing spectacles on his ass's forehead. In his right hand is a piece of charcoal in a holder, in his left is a paper, which he is studying. Above his head is etched 'Apollo'. On the left stands a man looking over Bottom's shoulder, his fists clenched. Behind (right) two students (seated) draw from the antique, a nude male statue on a pedestal just above the level of their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image, a line from a speech by the character Quince, from Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, iii.1.121., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: "W_hen Phidias or Raph'el shall chuse to repair, I_ncog to our fine modern Artists' fam'd School, L_ost in wonder to see stuck in Genius's Chair T_he Block which now fills it) a formal old Fool. O_ ff again with this sneering Remark they will go, N_o marvel your Pupils old Friend are so so". JP.", and Initial letters of each line form word 'Wilton.'
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803, Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810, Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C., Raphael, 1483-1520., Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Artists' models, and Sculptors
"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., 1 print : aquatint with etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28.6 cm, on sheet 26.7 x 33.6 cm., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jany. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) and Somerset House (London, England)
"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:
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 9., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 1., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist., Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Somerset House (London, England)
"Scene in the Great Room in the Royal Academy, during an exhibition; a large crowd of colourful characters gathers in the space, some chatting in small groups, others admiring the paintings that fill the walls, reaching from floor level to the ceiling, impossibly high to be seen in any detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 2., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 10., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 Jany. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) and Somerset House (London, England)
Manuscript describes the career of John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810) in detail and includes discussion of his painting techniques. There are frequent mentions of the Royal Academy. Accompanied by seven related pieces concerning the Rigaud and Dutilh families
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dutilh family., Rigaud family., Rigaud, J. F. 1742-1810. (John Francis),, Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh, 1777-1861., and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Design consists of three panels in a horizontal row, each individually captioned in letterpress below showing an artists competition in the Royal Academe
Description:
Title from text below leftmost image., Publisher from series title page., and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
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
Manuscripts, in numerous hands, of a collection of notes on art. The collection includes numerous lists of works Reynolds saw while visiting Italian museums, houses, and private collections; a pencil drawing of a country house; and an undated letter regarding "the beautiful Episode of Abradatas and Panthea": of this episode, he writes, "it occurred to me that this Story might furnish to the pencil a Suite of Subjects." Other items include a note on Raphael's "School of Athens"; an "Ode, Inscribed to Sir Abraham Hume, on his painting two beautiful Pictures of Views near his seat at Wormley Herts"; and an anonymous criticism of Reynolds' last Discourse on painting and poetry which he had "delivered to the students of the Royal Academy."
Description:
In English. and Collection includes a two-page note, dated 1968, regarding some of the items in the collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Italy., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hume, Abraham, Sir, bart., 1749-1838., Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792., and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
Art, English poetry, Memorandums, Odes, Painting, and Social life and customs
