The Visual Arts:In the field of the visual arts, print negotiated the interrelationships between people and a proliferation of media, from exhibition catalogues to Academy lectures. These printed texts mediated the complex social interactions within exhibition spaces like the Salon at the Louvre and the Great Room at Somerset House. The exhibition catalogue, for example, acted as a kind of interactive tool, which patrons could use to engage directly with the subject or content of art works. At the same time, publications of Academicians' printed lectures, like those by Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Opie, influenced developments in fine arts practices in France, Britain and beyond.
Garrick and Hogarth, by Richard Evan Sly [state 1/3], a hand-coloured lithograph.
Garrick and Hogarth, by Richard Evan Sly [state 2/3], a hand-coloured lithograph.
Garrick and Hogarth, by Richard Evan Sly [state 3/3], a hand-coloured lithograph.
Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire : faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution française / par M.A. Thiers, facing page.
Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire : faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution française / par M.A. Thiers.
Catalogues de ventes et livrets de salons illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin / introduction et notices par Emile Dacier, volume 2, page 50.
Notice des principaux tableaux recueillis dans la Lombardie / par les commissaires du gouvernement français, the title page.
Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, the Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur.
Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, the Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life, page 2 and facing
The Genii of caricature bringing in fresh supplies, by George Moutard Woodward, a hand-coloured etching.
Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy : by the President, the title page.
Self portrait, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraving and stipple.
Lectures on painting : delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts: with a letter on the proposal for a public memorial of the naval glory of Great Britain / To which are prefixed, a memoir by Mrs. Opie, the frontispiece and title page.
[Request] 1825 May 11,Royal Academy [London, to] C. Rossi [London], the front.
[Request] 1825 May 11,Royal Academy [London, to] C. Rossi [London], the back.