drawing

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Museum number: 2006,U.899
Description: Key to Zoffany's painting of the members of the Royal Academy, gathered to draw from a model, a young man, being positioned on the right; most are conversing; in the foreground sits another model; on the wall, portraits of Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser; behind the group, classical busts and casts, including an écorché; after the painting in the Royal Collection Ink
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School/style
Production date: 1772-1850 (circa)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 510 millimetres (sheet); Width: 688 millimetres (sheet)
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Curator's comments: After the painting in the Royal collection, for which there is a related drawing in the BM collection: 1923,0714.10.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: art academy; british costume 18thc; nude; anatomy
Associated names: Portrait of: Johan Joseph Zoffany; Portrait of: Benjamin West; Portrait of: Francis Hayman; Portrait of: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Portrait of: Dr William Hunter; Portrait of: Richard Yeo; Portrait of: Francesco Zuccarelli; Portrait of: Edward Burch; Portrait of: George Michael Moser; Portrait of: Nathaniel Hone; Portrait of: Richard Cosway; Portrait of: Angelica Kauffman; Portrait of: Mary Moser
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition date: 1850-1890 (circa)
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2006,U.899

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