General Assembly minutes, vol. 3

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/GA/1/3

Title

General Assembly minutes, vol. 3

Date

10 Feb 1810 - 10 Dec 1825

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 vol., 453pp.

Content Description

Volume of minutes of the General Assembly, including the following selected entries: the statement of the President, Benjamin West, that the Prince Regent had declared that he intended to donate a bronze lamp to illuminate the Great Room at the annual dinner, 20 June 1811; transcript of the Royal Academy’s address to the Prince Regent, refusing to allow a request to admit engravers as full Academicians, which gained the unanimous agreement of the General Assembly, 30 December 1812; ratification of Council resolution “that the President shall convene a General Assembly whenever five or more Academicians apply in writing to him for that purpose”, 28 July 1814; and appointment of a committee, on the motion of the President, Sir Martin Archer Shee, to report to the General Assembly on the needs of the Royal Academy if it were to move to a new building, 18 July 1825.