drawing
- Museum number
- 1904,0101.2
- Description
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North Wall, The Great Room, Somerset House, the main space of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts; with three figures seated on bench, looking at paintings, and dog to left, paintings hung floor to ceiling on the facing wall including in the centre Sir Joshua Reynolds' 'HRH George, Prince of Wales' (Lloyd Webber Foundation). 1784
Pen and grey ink and grey wash, and watercolour
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 268 millimetres
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Width: 444 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- For a discussion of the change of attribution of these works from Ramberg to Burney and related literature, see the entry on the first drawing in this series of three (1904,0101.1).
The main paintings visible in this view of the North Wall, besides the Reynolds of the Prince of Wales, are: next to it on the left is Henry Fuseli's 'Lady Macbeth' (no. 66 in the RA catalogue that year, now Musée du Louvre, Paris) and on the right Benjamin West's 'The Apotheosis of Prince Alfred and Prince Octavius' (no. 81; now Royal Collection). The landscape in the lower centre is de Loutherbourg's 'Brather Bridge, which divides Westmoreland from Cumberland' (no. 71).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1951/2, Royal Academy, 'First 100 years of the RA', no.734
1969, BM, 'Royal Academy Draughtsmen 1769-1969', no.5
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Royal Academy Exhibition 1784
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0101.2
