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Creator:
Society of Artists of Great Britain
Title(s):
A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c... / Society of Artists of Great Britain.
Additional Title(s):

Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, &c.

Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, designs in architecture, prints, etc.

Exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain incorporated by his Majesty's Royal Charter
Published/Created:
[London] : Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791.
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
N5055.S6 C3
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16763778
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Exhibition held annually from 1760-1778 (1st-19th exhibitions). There was no exhibition in 1779, the 20th was held in 1780, no exhibitions 1781-1782, the 21st in 1783, no exhibitions 1784-1789, the 22nd in 1790, and the 23rd (the last) exhibition was held in 1791.
Title varies slightly.
The first exhibition catalogue April 21st, 1760 begins exhibited in the Great Room of the "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce" ; the rest of the exhibitions are held by the Society of Artists of Great Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Crots.
BAC : BAC has 2 copies of 1761 catalogue (2nd exhibition). Copy 1 is imperfect: frontispiece wanting.
BAC : British Art Center copy incomplete: catalogues for 1760 (1st exhibition), 1783 (21st), 1790-1791 (22nd-23rd) are wanting.
Plates in 1761 & 1762 catalogues (2nd-3rnd exhibition) by Charles Grignion; after William Hogarth and Samuel Wale.
See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic work, nos. 243-244 for description of frontispiece and plate in 1761 catalogue. BAC copy differs slightly from versions described there.
BAC,REF copy: Photocopy of volumes in Walpole Library.
Subject Terms:
Art, British -- Exhibitions.
Art, Modern -- 17th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Art, Modern -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Society for the Encourgement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce.
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  • volume 1. (1760-1770): First exhibition held April 21st, 1760
  • Second exhibition held May 9th, 1761
  • A letter to the Members of the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce: containing, some remarks on the pictures... (2nd edition of 1761)
  • Third exhibition held May 7th, 1762
  • February 23, 1763
  • Fourth exhibition held May 14th, 1763
  • Fifth exhibition held April 9th, 1764
  • Sixth exhibition held April 23rd, 1765
  • A critical Review of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, drawings, prints, etc. held May 14th, 1765
  • Seventh exhibition held April 21st, 1766
  • A critical review of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, drawings, prints, etc. held May 2nd, 1766
  • The exhibition or a candid display of the genius and merits of the several masters, whose works are now offered toe the public, at Spring Gardens held May 6th, 1766
  • Eighth exhibition held April 22, 1767
  • A critical examination of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, etc held April 22, 1767
  • Le pour et le contre being a poetical display of merit and demerit of the capital paintings exhibited at Spring Gardens
  • Ninth exhibition of April 28th, 1768
  • Critical observations on the pictures held 1768
  • September 13, 1768
  • The tenth exhibition held May 1st, 1769
  • The eleventh exhibition held April 16, 1770.
  • Volume 2. (1771-1791): The twelfth exhibition held April 26, 1771
  • The thirteenth exhibition held May 13th, 1772
  • Candid Observations on the principal performances held May 1772
  • The fourteenth exhibition held April 29, 1773
  • The fifteenth exhibition held April 25th, 1774
  • The sixteenth exhibition held April 25th, 1775
  • The seventeenth exhibition held April 18th, 1776
  • The eighteenth exhibition held April 28th, 1777
  • The nineteenth exhibition held April 24, 1778
  • The twentieth exhibition held April 15th, 1780
  • The 21st exhibition held April 28th, 1783
  • The twenty-second exhibition held May 1st, 1790
  • Twenty-third exhibition held 1791.