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- Title:
Life School at the Royal Academy
- Date:
- 1773
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 22 x 30 3/8 inches (55.9 x 77.2 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 on back in graphite lower right: "Richard Earlom | (IR 230/167)
Lettered 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:
- B1978.43.334
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- academy | brushes | busts | canes | chandelier | drawing | historical subject | hourglass | lamps | men | nudes | painting (visual work) | palette | portrait | rope | school | sculptures | urn
- Associated People:
- Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [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, 99/ 243-44, Earlom no. 1, NE1816.G7 S58 2004 [ORBIS]