362 Pietro Antonio Martini after Johann Heinrich Ramberg, Exhibition of the...

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Description: Exhibition of the Royal Academy

TitleExhibition of the Royal Academy

Creator nameMartini, Pietro Antonio

Creator name (description)after Johann Heinrich Ramberg

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1787

Object typePrint

MaterialsHand-colored engraving and etching

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1871-1209-591

Accession number1871,1209.591

SubjectsPrints, ItalianPainting, British--ExhibitionsPrinces in art

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11. The Prince of Wales at Somerset House

Mark Hallett

Reynolds: Portraiture in Action

~~In 1780, the Royal Academy moved into its first proper home. Over the previous decade, the institution’s annual...

Author

Mark Hallett

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.343-381

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00296.12

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22322&redirecttoanchor=76664

Chapter subject tags:Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Somerset House (London, England)Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Portrait painting, British--18th century

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

Related print edition pages: pp.39-54

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

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18336&redirecttoanchor=76664

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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