Pasted to the face of the page are three newspaper cuttings.
Firstly, [18 Oct 1787], [from
The World, a report of the French salon of 1787 noticing
The Death of Socrates by
David and
Hercules Strangling the Serpents by
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Secondly, [May 1787] a short notice of Dickinson's exhibition, Spring Gardens, of the works of
Revd William Peters.
Thirdly, [1 Feb 1787], a pritned letter to the Council and Visitors of the Royal Academy, from "an outside artist", bemoaning the regulation barring unmarried men from the Life School.