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Royal Academy. Somerset House, London.
1811
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 16/Normal/Prints/Titles Ro-Sc GA 2014.00450
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1811.
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Art students—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Learned institutions and societies—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- Artists and models—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Artists at work—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Female nude—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Royal Academy. Somerset House, London.
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 16/Normal/Prints/Titles Ro-Sc GA 2014.00450
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/m039kd01s
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1811.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1811
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 25.7 x 36.3 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego II, pp. 216-217
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: The members, who are studying from the nude, are all well advanced in years. The seats and drawing-stands of the old Life Academy are arranged in a horseshoe. The first or inner row of students being seated while those who form the outer semicircle are standing at their easels. An agreeable and graceful-looking female is posed beneath the reflectors in an easy attitude which she is preserving with the assistance of a looped rope slung from the roof.
- Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson fecit 1811" [date altered in plate].
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Art students—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Learned institutions and societies—England—London—Caricatures and cartoons
- Artists and models—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Artists at work—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Female nude—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ec55fd75-4a39-4917-ad63-e45455ba8a73/manifest