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Print made by Pietro Antonio Martini, 1738–1797, Italian, Exhibition of Royal Academy, 1787
- Title:
- Exhibition of Royal Academy
- Date:
- 1787
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12779
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | art | coats | crowd | dresses | exhibitions | frames (furnishings) | gallery | genre subject | gowns | hats, top | paintings | people | skirts (garments)
- Associated Places:
- City of Westminster | Greater London | London | Royal Academy
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38368
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Reynolds displayed many of his most ambitious portraits at the enormously popular public exhibitions hosted annually by London’s Royal Academy. For example, in this engraved view of the exhibition of 1787, Reynolds’s portrait of the Prince of Wales with a servant may be seen at the very center of the far wall. The entry in the accompanying exhibition catalogue referred viewers only to the painting’s white sitter, “His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.” --This text served as the label to this object in Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art that was curated by Esther Chadwick, Meredith Gamer, and Cyra Levenson, which was on view from October 2, 2014 until December 14, 2014.
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Slavery and Portraiture in 18th-century Atlantic Britain, [Website] , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2015, Available online https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/slavery-and-portraiture/ [Website]
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