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- Title:
Key to Life School at the Royal Academy
- Date:
- 1794
- Medium:
- Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (25.7 x 35.9 cm), Plate: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (25.1 x 35.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "38"
Lettered upper center: "Publifhed 12th. May, 1794. by LAURIE WHITTLE, No. 53 Fleet Street, London."; center left to center right: "19 | 35 | 17 | 31 | 10 | 11 | 23 | 33 | 28 | 16 | 27 | 6 | 30 | 9 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 32 | 34 | 7 | 36 | 5 | 29 | 13 | 3 | 22 | 21 | 25 | 18 | 24 | 20"; lower center: "<. . .>P<. . .>2 1773"; lower left to lower right: "1 Sr. Joshua Reynolds. | 2 Sr. William Chambers. | 3 George Michael Mofer. | 4 Francis Milner Newton. | 5 Edward Penny | 6 Thomas Sandby. | 7 Samuel Wale. | 8 William Hunter | 9 Francis Hayman. | 10 Tan Chet-qua a Chinefe Artist. | 11 George Barret. | 12 Francefco Bartolozzi. | 13 Edward Burch. | 14 Agoftino Carbini. | 15 Charles Catton. | 16 Mafon Chamberlin | 17 J. Baptist Capriani. | 18 Richard Cosway. | 19 John Gwynn. | 20 William Hoare | 21 Nathaniel Hone. | 22 Mrs. Angelica Kauffman. | 23 Jeremiah Meyer. | 24 Mrs. Mary Moser. | 25 Joseph Nollekens. | 26 John Richards. | 27 Paul Sandby | 28 Dominick Serres. | 29 Peter Toms. | 30 William Tyler. | 31 Benjamin West. | 32 Richard Wilson. | 33 Joseph Wilton. | 34 Richard Yeo. | 35 Johan Zoffanij. | 36 Francefco Zuccarelli."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1126
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- academy | brushes | busts | canes | chandelier | drawing | genre subject | historical subject | hourglass | lamps | men | nudes | painting (visual work) | paintings | palette | rope | Royal Academy of Arts | school | sculptures | urn
- Associated People:
- Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter
Royal Academy
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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