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Descriptions of a Royal Academy for artists: 832/5.f.10

Object information

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Titles

Descriptions of a Royal Academy for artists
Description of a cast room and contents

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Flaxman, John

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1916-12) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Brown ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Leaf Size Height 213 mm Width 150 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Pen and brown ink on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 10
  • Location: Upper right
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: [i] crossed through in brown ink

  • Text: Royal Academy / contains a School in which boys are instructed in the principles of design, I saw about 40 / employed in copying drawings, they are / instructed by able professors, supplied with / paper chalk & all other necessaries for their / studies gratis, as are all the other students / throughout this Academy / An Academy for the living model / An An[i] Academy for Ornaments / furnished with all the prints after Raffaels / ornaments & c & many casts of Antique / ornaments / An Academy for Engravers / A fine Council Chamber in / which are many valuable drawings / & paintings by great masters, the / deposits of the Honorary Academicians / & a model in wood about 4 feet high / for a Temple to contain the statues of the / Niobe family, small models of the figures / with the Horse in the corridors of the Gallery / are disposed within in a picturesque manner
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: [i] preceding word crossed through in brown ink, following word appears above the line; [ii] prededing word crossed through in brown ink; [iii] list of casts arranged in two vertical columns, this point being the first line of the right-hand column

  • Text: A Hall of Plaisters[sic] a noble one / indeed far superior to any I have seen / hitherto the folding doors & its[i] their Architrave / are formed of Ghi[ii] casts in plaister from / Ghiberti's gates neatly made & exactly resembling the original bronze except / that the colour is white, more favourable / for such as are disposed to study from / them, they are so well framed in wood / that nothing but wilful malevolence can / injure them, these I believe are the / only doors in the world worthy to be the entrance to a fine School of Art, some of / the casts in this room are / Apollo Belvidere / Venus de Medicis / the Boxers / the Laocoon / Menelaus supporting / Patroclus Bacchus leaning on a / faun from the Gallery / Fighting Gladiator / [iii] Dying Gladiator / Lesser Bacchus & faun / young Apollo / Pancritiast with the / Phial &c &c / many casts from / the Trojan Column
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 832/5.f.10
Primary reference Number: 38098
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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