General Assembly minutes, vol. 3
Volume of minutes of the General Assembly, including the following selected entries: the statement of the President,
Benjamin West, that the
Prince Regent had declared that he intended to donate a bronze lamp to illuminate the Great Room at the annual dinner, 20 June 1811; transcript of the Royal Academy’s address to the Prince Regent, refusing to allow a request to admit engravers as full Academicians, which gained the unanimous agreement of the General Assembly, 30 December 1812; ratification of Council resolution “that the President shall convene a General Assembly whenever five or more Academicians apply in writing to him for that purpose”, 28 July 1814; and appointment of a committee, on the motion of the President,
Sir Martin Archer Shee, to report to the General Assembly on the needs of the Royal Academy if it were to move to a new building, 18 July 1825.