Exposé Of The Royal Academy Of Arts Where "Blockheads In Parties Hide Their Want Of Sense, And Strut In Corporate Consequence.,' Sir Martin Archer Shee. - By Thomas Skaife. - Illustrated By Donkeiana. -

Thomas Skaife

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/3787

Author

Imprint

London:: Piper, Stephenson And Spence, Paternoster Row., 1854.

Physical Description

iv, 104 p., frontis.; 236 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[Frontis., t.p.] - Introduction - [Text] - Appendix - Contents - Index; Errata; Omissions; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The printer is named on the title-page verso, 'Lucas, Printer, "Kentish Mercury" Office, Greenwich' - and in the colophon, 'Lucas, Printer, London Street And Maize Hill, Greenwich.'

Summary Note

The Introduction describes the Royal Academy's rejection in 1848 of a miniature portrait of Dr Lingard by 'an obscure artist'. The rest of the text criticises the Academy's selection processes and its standing generally. It includes correspondence between Skaife and J.P. Knight, R.A., Secretary of the Royal Academy from 1847 to 1873.

The frontispiece shows an ass seeming to address a company of asses, one of whom is seated at an easel.

Reproductions

A microfiche version was published in 1993 (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey).

Provenance

Purchased for RA Library in 1869 (see 'Library Report for the year 1869', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 27).

Binding Note

19th-century blue cloth; spine lettered 'Skaife. Exposé Of The Royal Academy. 1854' and 'R.A.'

Name as Subject

Subject

Academies - Artists - Exhibitions - Great Britain - London - History - 19th century

Contributors