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An Academy

Print
1772 (published)
Artist/Maker
Ravenet, Simon Francis (The Elder) (engraver)
Boydell, John (publisher)
Mortimer, John Hamilton (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Frontispiece depicting students in a life drawing class; bleow, outside the design is a vignette showing putti engaged in sketching and painting.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleAn Academy (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
An Academy. Print depicting students in a life drawing class. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet after John Hamilton Mortimer, 1772.
Physical description
Frontispiece depicting students in a life drawing class; bleow, outside the design is a vignette showing putti engaged in sketching and painting.
Dimensions
  • Height: 51.12cm
  • Width: 42.55cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO 1964
Style
British School
Copy number
3rd state
Marks and inscriptions
'John Mortimer Pinxit. S. F. Ravenet sculpsit John Boydell excudit. Published November 1st. 1771, by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London' (Lettered with title, etc. and)
Object history
This print was published as the frontispiece to volume two of A Collection of Prints, published by John Boydell, London, 1772.
Production
This print was first published November 1st 1771.
Subjects depicted
Putti
Life Drawing
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO, 1964
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.468-1961

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1043367/an-academy-print-ravenet-simon-francis/
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