IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240040 accession number: P.14993-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the pen and watercolour drawing by Michel Vincent Brandoin (1733-1807), (1771; The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Sir Bruce Ingram Collection, 63.52.23). The top-lit gallery of the third Royal Academy Summer exhibition, the walls crowded with paintings, including James Barry's The Temptation of Adam (National Gallery of Ireland), which is flanked by two full-length portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Mr Nuthall and Captain Wade. The satirical elements of the design include the flirtatiousness of the couple in the foreground mimicking the 'temptation' of Barry's painting and the boredom of the child who has fallen asleep on the bench at the centre. The male figure seen at centre right, who has a squint and wears a cocked hat, has been identified as the radical politician, John Wilkes, MP for Middlesex (1725-1797). title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240040 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1772 - 1772 creation date earliest: 1772 creation date latest: 1772 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Earlom, Richard maker: Sayer, Robert maker: Brandoin, Michel Vincent