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Description: Exhibition Room, Somerset House

TitleExhibition Room, Somerset House

Creator nameHill, John

Creator name (description)after Auguste Charles Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1808

Object typePrint

MaterialsColored aquatint

Dimensionsplate: 9 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (23.5 × 28.6 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Accession numberDA683 .M53 1808+ Copy 1 Oversize

SubjectsSomerset House (London, England)Crowds in artArt exhibition audiencesWatercolor painting, British--Exhibitions

StatusFrom Rudolph Ackermann, "Microcosm of London," vol. 1, London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1808

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4. “Articles fanciful, useful, and Neat”– The Business of Amateur Art

Ann Bermingham

Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art

~In the first issue in 1809 of his magazine, the Repository of the Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufacturers, Fashions...

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Ann Bermingham

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.127-181

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00189.005

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Chapter subject tags:Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834Amateur artsArt--Handbooks, manuals, etcDrawing--Study and teaching

I. Spaces of Portrayal

Marcia Pointon

Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England

Attempts to restore historic houses to an approximation of their original condition are now commonly accompanied by efforts not only to install ‘authentic’ fixtures...

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Marcia Pointon

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.13-52

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00062.005

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Chapter subject tags:England--Social life and customs--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryHistoric buildings--Britain--18th centuryWalpole, Horace, 1717-1797Country homes--England--18th centuryInterior decoration--England--18th centuryReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788Romney, George, 1734-1802

Catalogue: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

~~Isaac Mendes Belisario was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1795 into a Sephardic Jewish family of Spanish or Portuguese origin. Expelled from Spain in 1492, the majority of Sephardim settled in Portugal and in 1497 were...

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Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

PublisherYale Center for British Art

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.025

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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...

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C. S. Matheson

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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

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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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