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The "Life class" at the Royal Academy [print].

Accession number
PML 146378, leaf 097
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
Published
[London : s.n., 1808?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on leaf 97 (verso) of v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of D.E. William's The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).
Etched proof touched or drawn over with graphite, representing an unfinished state of an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson for The microcosm of London (London : R. Ackermann, 1808-1810), v. 1, plate 1.
Description
1 print : etching ; 198 x 260 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Print inscribed in ink: Given to my Old Friend T. Smith [signed] T. Rowlandson.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a classroom where students are engaged in sketching a seated man who poses nude with one elbow on his knee and his hand pensively held to his face.
Classification
Department