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1. Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1794]
Call Number:: 794.01.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated. Shakespere [sic] [graphic].

2. The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting, in the year 1771 from an original drawing in the possession of Robt. Sayer / [graphic]

Creator:: Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker
Published / Created:: published as the act directs, 20 May 1772.
Call Number:: 772.05.20.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting, in the year 1771 from an original drawing in the possession of Robt. Sayer / [graphic]

3. St. Jame's Street in an uproar, or, The quack artist and his assailants [graphic]

Creator:: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately February 1819]
Call Number:: 819.02.00.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Fashionable carriages throng the west side of St. James's Street, stopping outside a house with a pilastered door (right) above which is a notice: 'Chalk Drawing'. A dense crowd of tiny figures enters. The crowd is watched intently by Haydon who stands (left) on the opposite pavement; a taller man, probably a pupil, takes his arm. Haydon wears spectacles and holds a small portfolio. A goose labelled 'W C' menaces him from behind. At the bird's feet are two papers: 'Cabal 2 Octavo Volumes W C.' and 'Quack Artist Play .W C. Weather Cock.' There are two placard bearers; one behind Haydon and on the extreme left holds up a notice: 'Chalk Drawings by Haydon['s] Pupils Landsers & Bewick--Private Day.' The other is a small boy (right), assailed by hissing geese, at whose feet is a paper: 'Catalogue Raisonny'. His placard is inscribed 'Exhibition of Drawings, by Haydons pupils Landseers and Bewick for the Cartoons and Elgin Marbles.' The street recedes in perspective to the gate of St. James's Palace. Outside the first-floor windows of the house of the Exhibition is a carved lion."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: St. James's Street in an uproar and Quack artist and his assailants
Description:: Title etched below image., Text following title: Saturday morning 30 Jany. 1819., and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.8410.
Publisher:: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: St. James's (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846, Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880., Bewick, William, 1795-1866., Carey, William, 1759-1839., Saint James's Palace (London, England),, and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):: City & town life, Artists, British, Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Signs (Notices), and Geese
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > St. Jame's Street in an uproar, or, The quack artist and his assailants [graphic]

4. [Notes on art], [ca. 1794 or later].

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Call Number:: Osborn fc116
Image Count:: 83
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Notes on art], [ca. 1794 or later].

5. Facts and recollections of the XVIIIth century in a memoir of John Francis Rigaud Esq., R.A. : member of the Clementine Academy of Bologna, Royal Academician of Stockholm, and historical painter to Gustavus IV. King of Sweden. With poetical remains of Mrs. Mary Rigaud by their son Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud, member, and one of the founders of the First Society of Painters in Water Colours, instituted in 1805, 1854

Creator:: Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh, 1777-1861
Call Number:: Osborn d76
Image Count:: 468
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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)
Subject (Topic):: Artists, Painting, and Technique
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facts and recollections of the XVIIIth century in a memoir of John Francis Rigaud Esq., R.A. : member of the Clementine Academy of Bologna, Royal Academician of Stockholm, and historical painter to Gustavus IV. King of Sweden. With poetical remains of Mrs. Mary Rigaud by their son Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud, member, and one of the founders of the First Society of Painters in Water Colours, instituted in 1805, 1854

6. Drawing from life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House) [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1808]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
Collection Title:: V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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., and Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
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)
Subject (Topic):: Interiors
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drawing from life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House) [graphic]

7. Drawing from life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House) [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1808]
Call Number:: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1
Collection Title:: V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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., 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)
Subject (Topic):: Interiors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Drawing from life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House) [graphic]

8. Exhibition room, Somerset House [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1808]
Call Number:: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1
Collection Title:: V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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)
Subject (Topic):: Crowds, Galleries & museums, and Interiors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Exhibition room, Somerset House [graphic]

9. Mike Marall and Paul Peruke meet at the Royal Academy among other geniuses, Master Tom Tiptoe [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1845?]
Call Number:: 845.00.00.53
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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.
Publisher:: J. Lendrum
Subject (Name):: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mike Marall and Paul Peruke meet at the Royal Academy among other geniuses, Master Tom Tiptoe [graphic].