A Catalogue Raisonée Of the Pictures now Exhibiting At The British Institution, Printed with a sincere desire to assist the Noble Directors in turning the Public Attention to those particular Pieces which they have kindly selected ...
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/1111
Imprint
[London?:: s.n.,, 1815.]
Physical Description
74 p.; 238 mm. (Folio.)
General Note
In the Royal Academy's copies the text is preceded by a four-page notice, beginning, 'Declaration Issued In the Preface to the Catalogue, Of The British Institution, For April, 1811.'
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - Preface - [Text]; [Errata] - List of Pictures.
Responsibility Note
The work is dedicated by 'Stans pede in uno' to 'The Incendiary Who Published The Two Extracts'.
Summary Note
No publication-date is given; but the exhibition of Belgian and Dutch pictures on which the present text comments contained 146 pictures, beginning with 1. King Charles I on horseback, by Van Dyck; 2. Lady and child, by Van Dyck; 3. Allegory, by Rubens - i.e. the exhibition mounted by the British Institution in 1815.
The text consists entirely of hostile comments, e.g. 'No. 16. This beastly production we reserve to remark upon bye and bye. It will probably be the last piece to receive our notice. No.17. May be put into the heap with the rest of its companions ... No. 18. Is wretched ... a point less vilainously bad than No. 10.'
Provenance
[First copy:] The front free-endpaper is inscribed in pencil. 'S: A: H', i.e. S.A. Hart RA, Llibrarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
[Second copy:] Bound with a copy of the British Institution's catalogue of its 1815 old masters exhibition, of which the front free-endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Charles Hawkins' and the front pastedown is inscribed in pencil, 'S. A. H.' Presented in 1877 by Charles Hawkins, M.R.C.S.L.
[Second copy:] 19th-century half calf, mottled-papered boards; black morocco spine-label lettered 'Catalogue Raisonné Of Pictures Exhibited At British Institution 1815'. Bound with one other.
Paintings, Belgian - Paintings, Dutch - History
Exhibitions - Great Britain - London - History - 19th century
Art criticism - Great Britain - 19th century