Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, Britishafter Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Title:
Life School at the Royal Academy
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/8 x 28 1/2 inches (51.1 x 72.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "6"; on back, center: "947/20"; on back, lower left: "No.21 | [...]"; on back, lower right: "[...] | £250"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1125
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sculptures | academy | men | snake | paintings | portrait | lamps | models (people) | brushes | urn | Royal Academy of Arts | literary theme | drawing | hourglass | nudes | canes | chandelier | palette | rope | school | busts
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
Publications:
Elizabeth E. Barker, Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool, Yale University Press, Liverpool New Haven, 2007, p. 95, fig. 100, NJ18 W95 B36 2007 + (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 47, 100, no. 76, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v.1, pp. 243-44, Earlom no. 1, NE1816.G7 S58 2004