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- Title:
The Royal Academy of Arts
- Additional Title(s):
Life School at the Royal Academy
- Date:
- 1773
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches (49.2 x 71.8 cm), Plate: 19 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches (49.2 x 71.8 cm), Image: 18 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches (47.6 x 71.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Joannes Zoffanii Pinxit 1772"; lower center: "Robertus Sayer excudit. | 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. | London: Published by Robt. Sayer, at No. 53, in Fleet Street as the Act directs 2d. August 1773."; lower right: "Richardus Earlom Sculpsist 1773."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14613
- 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 | school | sculptures | urn
- Associated People:
- West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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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]