Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Exhibition stare case.
Call Number
C South 02/Drawer 06/GC112/Half Folio/Prints GA 2014.00789
Identifier
ark:/88435/1n79hc409
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 50.1 x 32.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, pp. 217-219 (reproduced)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: The staircase of the handsome buildings erected for Somerset House originally set apart for the Exhibition of the Royal Academy is ridiculed as a scene of unequivocal confusion. Whether the dangers of the somewhat steep ascent were actually as hazardous as the artist has depicted is open to question. The situation is treated with a license which, perhaps, may be held to verge on the inadmissible.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Somerset House (London, England)—Caricatures and cartoons
Spectators—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Fashion—England—London—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Accidents—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
Staircases—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796—Caricatures and cartoons
Museum visitors—England—London—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d7dc52ee-f602-4225-a316-4310b4dfcc68/manifest