The Hall at the Royal Academy, Somerset House
1810
ink
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1810
ink
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Hall at the Royal Academy, Somerset House is a 1810 ink by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a big hall with plaster casts of old sculptures. The hall is in Somerset House, where the Royal Academy of Arts was located in 1810. It's interesting that this print was colored by hand after it was printed, which makes each copy a little unique. You can learn more about the technique used to create this print, called etching.
This 1810 etching depicts the entrance hall of Somerset House on London’s Strand, which housed the Royal Academy in that year. The scene includes plaster casts of antique sculptures such as the Apollo Belvedere, the Farnese Hercules, and the Furietti Centaurs, with a student drawing one of the figures. The print was produced as plate 29 in the May 1810 issue of *The Repository of Arts*, a periodical that included hand coloring after printing. The Royal Academy’s Annual Exhibition, held in the same building, was a major cultural event, attracting submissions from prominent artists and drawing…
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