A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apoll...
"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 ma...
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.
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
Satirical print showing the fanciful interior of an artist's studio, with one painter (right) finishing a portrait of an aged admiral with a wooden leg seated in a chair (far right) while a second artist works on a painting of the Rape of Europa, an a...
Alternative Title:
State of portrait and historical painting
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1798 for the proprietor, at Messrs. Colnaghi & Sala's, Pall Mall
