Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Royal Academy of Arts.
Call Number
A West 24/Drawer 05/GC106/Full Folio/17th-18th c. GA 2005.01515
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctq57p4967
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1773/08/02.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1773
Extent
1 item
References
Le Blanc II, p. 180, no. 64
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Mezzotints
Inscribed in plate: "The Royal Academy of Arts, instituted by the King, in the Year 1768; Humbly dedicated to its Royal Patron, by His Majesty's most faithfull Subject, Robert Sayer".
Depiction: Interior genre scene. Members of the Academy gathered in lower righte room; two nude models at right.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Johannes Zoffanii pinxit 1772".
Signed in plate, lower center: "Robertus Sayer excudit".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Richardus Earlom sculpsit 1773".
Signed and dated: "Johannes Zoffanii Pinxit 1772".
Signed in plate: "Robertus Sayer excudit".
Signed in plate: "Richardus Earlom Sculpsit 1773".
Signed in plate: "London: Published by Rob' Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2d August 1773".

Discovery Information

Subject
Male nude in art
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)—In art
Learned institutions and societies—England—London—In art
Artists and models—England—London—18th century—In art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/180d3b54-9e5b-4c0b-b090-308d67b604dd/manifest