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4. ‘Stare Cases’: Engendering the Public’s Two Bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts
K. Dian Kriz
Description: Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
THOMAS ROWLANDSON’S DRAWING, The Exhibition Stare Case (c.1800;The drawing has been dated c.1800 by John Hayes, in The Art of Thomas Rowlandson, Alexandria, Virginia 1990, 72. fig. 41), is surely one of the wittiest images ever produced on the subject of...
Author
K. Dian Kriz
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2001 by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Courtauld Institute Gallery
Related print edition pages: pp.55-63
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.010
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18337
Chapter subject tags:Art, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryArt exhibition audiences--Great Britain--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Somerset House (London, England)Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Aesthetics, Modern--18th centuryArt criticism--England--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th century

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4. ‘Stare Cases’: Engendering the Public’s Two Bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts