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TitleView of the Salon of 1767

Creator nameSaint-Aubin, Gabriel de

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1767

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArt museumsSalonsArt, French--Exhibitions

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1. Architecture and Experience: The Visitor and the Spaces of Somerset House, 1780–1796

John Murdoch

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836

NEW SOMERSET HOUSE WAS A BUILDING with a programme. At a practical level it was intended primarily for the housing of public offices, the need for which was the result of a growth in the machinery of government characteristic of modernizing states in the later seventeenth and eighteenth...

Author

John Murdoch

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.9-22

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18334&redirecttoanchor=22758

Chapter subject tags:Somerset House (London, England)Architecture, British--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796Architecture, British--Classical influencesSculpture, Classical--AppreciationArt, British--Exhibitions--18th century

Drawing: Medium, Discourse, Object

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium

~The aim of the present exhibition is to make visible — and palpable — the multifarious process of drawing’s emergence into modernity. To achieve this aim, we have dispensed with the traditionally privileged...

Author

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.12-34

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00039.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16383&redirecttoanchor=22758

Chapter subject tags:Drawing--HistoryModernism (Art)Art--Collectors and collectingDrawing, European--ExhibitionsDrawing--Technique

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