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- Title:
- Life School at the Royal Academy
- Additional Title(s):
- The Royal Academy of Arts
- Date:
- 1773
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches (52.4 x 73.3 cm), Plate: 19 7/8 x 28 1/4 inches (50.5 x 71.8 cm), Image: 19 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (48.9 x 71.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "Dr. Daniell | March '65 | with key"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "J Zoffany pinxit"; lower center: "Publish'd August 1st. 1773, R Sayer Excudit"; lower right: "Rd. Earlom Sculpst"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14607
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- academy | brushes | busts | canes | chandelier | drawing | historical subject | hourglass | lamps | men | nudes | painting (visual work) | paintings | palette | portrait | rope | Royal Academy of Arts | school | sculptures | urn
- Associated People:
- Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman - Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40617
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William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-02-14 - 2019-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
First Academies - Benjamin West and the Founding of the RA and PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2018-03-09 - 2018-06-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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. . ., , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v.1, pp. 243-44, Earlom no. 1, NE1816.G7 S58 2004 [ORBIS]