35 Pietro Martini after Johann Heinrich Ramberg, The Exhibition of the...

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Description: The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787

TitleThe Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787

Creator nameUnknown

Creator name (description)after Johann Heinrich Ramberg

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1787

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving and etching

Dimensions36.6 × 51.2 cm

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1441238&partId=1&searchText=The+Exhibition+of+the+Royal+Academy%2c+1787&page=1

Accession numberAa,1.24

SubjectsArt, British--ExhibitionsArt, British--18th centuryPainting, British--Exhibitions

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3. 'A Shilling Well Laid Out’: The Royal Academy’s Early Public

C. S. Matheson

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836

THE ADVENT OF ANNUAL ART EXHIBITIONS IN England during the second half of the eighteenth century helped stimulate certain fundamental shifts in the nature of contemporary artistic production; but their impact on the development of the viewing public proved at least equally profound. Exhibitions provided their spectators with ideological and aesthetic instruction, in part by generating a...

Author

C. S. Matheson

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.39-54

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18336&redirecttoanchor=38010

Chapter subject tags:Art, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryArt exhibition audiences--Great Britain--18th centurySomerset House (London, England)Art criticism--England--18th century

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