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- Title:
Life School at the Royal Academy
- Additional Title(s):
The Royal Academy of Arts
- Date:
- 1773
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches (52.4 x 73.3 cm), Plate: 19 7/8 x 28 1/4 inches (50.5 x 71.8 cm), Image: 19 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (48.9 x 71.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "Dr. Daniell | March '65 | with key"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "J Zoffany pinxit"; lower center: "Publish'd August 1st. 1773, R Sayer Excudit"; lower right: "Rd. Earlom Sculpst"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14607
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- academy | brushes | busts | canes | chandelier | drawing | historical subject | hourglass | lamps | men | nudes | painting (visual work) | paintings | palette | portrait | rope | Royal Academy of Arts | school | sculptures | urn
- Associated People:
- Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-02-14 - 2019-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
First Academies - Benjamin West and the Founding of the RA and PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2018-03-09 - 2018-06-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v.1, pp. 243-44, Earlom no. 1, NE1816.G7 S58 2004 [ORBIS]