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.
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.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Provenance: Acquisitions information unknown.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.7 x 29 cm, on sheet 24.6 x 30 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1
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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