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...
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the...
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops
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
