Desultory Exposition Of An Anti-British System Of Incendiary Publication, &c. Intended To Sacrifice The Honor And Interests Of The British Institution, The Royal Academy, And the whole Body of the British Artists And Their Patrons, To The Passions, Quackeries, and Falsehoods Of Certain Disappointed Candidates For Prizes at the British Gallery and Admission as Associates into the Royal Academy. - Respectfully addressed to the British Institution, The Artists, and Amateurs of the United Kingdom, By William Carey. -
London:: Printed by W. Glindon, Rupert Street, Haymarket, For The Author; And Published At 37, Marylebone Street, Piccadilly. -, 1819.
Physical Description
[iii]-xii, 349, [3], 7, [1] p.; 222 mm. (Quarto.)
Contents
[T.p.] - Attempts to bully the Press ...; Errata - Introduction - [Text] - Postscript - [Colophon] - Documents, Proving the Utility of the Press in promoting the Fine Arts; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The printer's name is repeated in the colophon. The name of the printer of the 'Documents, Proving the Utility of the Press in promoting the Fine Arts' is given in its colophon: 'Howlett and Brimmer, Printers, 10, Frith Street, Soho Square.'
References
NSTC 2C7350.
On Carey see W. Bates, 'William Carey', in Notes and Queries, 4th ser., 5 (1870), p.481-4.
Summary Note
This work was written in response to attacks by J. Elmes and B. R. Haydon in Annals of the Fine Arts, nos. 8 & 9. Haydon's feud with the Academy had begun in 1815, when his painting, 'Dentatus', had been exhibited in what he regarded as an unfavorable position. In the Annals of the Fine Arts, edited by his friend the architect James Elmes from 1816 to 1819, he had a vehicle in which to express his dissatisfaction.
Carey, too, believed in encouraging British artists. Since 1801 he had been publishing books and pamphlets advocating annual art exhibitions - under the aegis of the national and regional institutions.
Reproductions
A microfiche version was published in 1992 (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey).
Provenance
The title page is inscribed in ink, 'To Charles Cope Esqr. with the Authors respects Leeds, Jany. 17, 1827.-'. Purchased for RA Library in 1869 (see 'Library Report for the year 1869', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p.27).
Binding Note
20th-century dark-blue cloth; spine lettered 'Carey's Exposition' and 'R.A.'