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It was published in a periodical called <i>The Repository of Arts</i> in May 1810 to illustrate an article on the Royal Academy of Arts.<br><br><b>Subjects Depicted</b><br>This print shows the entrance hall at Somerset House on London's Strand, which in 1810 housed the Royal Academy. The hall contains plaster casts of antique sculptures that include the famous <i>Apollo Belvedere</i>, the <i>Farnese Hercules</i> and the <i>Furietti Centaurs</i>. A student, probably from the Royal Academy Schools, is shown drawing one of the sculptures.<br><br>From its foundation in 1768, the Royal Academy offered the most prestigious exhibition space in London. It held an Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Designs, which it decreed 'shall be open to all Artists of distinguished merit'. Aspiring artists submitted their works, and a selection was chosen by the exhibition committee. So many pictures were submitted, they had to be hung almost from floor to ceiling and with the frames touching each other.<br><br>There was great interest also in visiting the Annual Exhibitions at the Royal Academy. The Exhibition became an event in the social calendar and invitations to the Private View were in great demand.","physicalDescription":"Etching","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching, ink on paper, hand-coloured with watercolour","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Illustration","id":"THES48938"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AM7758"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"120 (VA)","id":"THES49226"},"free":"","case":"CA17","shelf":"DR3","box":"27"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1810","earliest":"1810-01-01","latest":"1810-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"12.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"17.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 27/11/1999 by KN\n\nPrint is cut down to paper size. Blue mount not in box 27/11/99","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Plate 29 from 'The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics', May 1810 vol III, no 17. By an unidentified artist working in London","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"The Hall at the Royal Academy, Somerset House","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Dated 1810.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nFrom its foundation in 1768 the Royal Academy was the most prestigious exhibition space in London. This view shows the entrance hall at Somerset House with plaster casts of famous antique sculptures including the Apollo Belvedere and the Farnese Hercules.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["E.601-1903"],"accessionNumberNum":"601","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1903,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Plate number","id":"THES51155"},"number":"Plate 29"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP9661","2019LR5943","2019LV5793"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}