- 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:
- Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - 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 : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v.1, pp. 243-44, Earlom no. 1, NE1816.G7 S58 2004 [ORBIS]