Exhibition Room, Somerset House. Plate 2.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. Hill Aquatin.
London Pub, 1. Jan.y 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts on the Strand.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
Interior view of the exhibition room at Somerset House, London. An extremely crowded exhibition with paintings from floor to ceiling and a large number of viewers. The Royal Academy was founded in 1768 with the backing of George III and twelve years later moved into the newly completed Strand block of Somerset House. Here the Academy held its annual exhibitions until 1836. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62783] £240.00
London Pub, 1. Jan.y 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts on the Strand.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
Interior view of the exhibition room at Somerset House, London. An extremely crowded exhibition with paintings from floor to ceiling and a large number of viewers. The Royal Academy was founded in 1768 with the backing of George III and twelve years later moved into the newly completed Strand block of Somerset House. Here the Academy held its annual exhibitions until 1836. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62783] £240.00