Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, from The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature
John Bluck, English, 1791 - 1819, after Augustus Charles Pugin, English, 1762 - 1832, after Thomas Rowlandson, English, 1756 - 1827
1808
Hand colored etching on wove paper
Plate: 9 1/4 × 11 3/16 in. (23.5 × 28.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 9/16 × 13 3/16 in. (26.9 × 33.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.950.61.1
Publisher
Rudolph Ackermann
Geography/Culture
Europe, Great Britain
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, in plate, upper right margin: Plate 1; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Rowlandson & Pugin del.t [in superscript] et sculp.t [in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: Bluck Aqua.t [in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: DRAWING from LIFE at the ROYAL ACADEMY, / (SOMERSET HOUSE.) / London Pub. 1, Jan. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101, Strand.; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 7.50 [in superscript]
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Women in Art, Kristin O‘Rourke, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
The Art of Spectatorship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.
Artist as Object/Subject, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 1999-March 12, 2000.
18th-Century English Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29-December 10, 1978.
Provenance
Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1950.
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