Print made by Pietro Antonio Martini, 1738–1797, Italianafter Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763–1840, German, active in Britain (1781–88)
Title:
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 20 9/16 inches (36.9 × 52.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1011
Gallery Label:
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—which is reproduced on the panel nearby—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."\n\n Gallery label for Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
