search results

Previous Showing result 5 of 18 Next

Close

Newspaper cuttings

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 107 of 146 in this group

Reference code

AND/6/167

Title

Newspaper cuttings

Date

[1787]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

3 pieces

Content Description

Firstly an advertisement for Mr. Dickinson's exhibition of pictures by Revd W. Peters and for the polygraphic exhibition of Joseph Booth.

Secondly an account of the introduction of Poussin's Seven Sacraments to the 1787 Academy exhibition, along with London art market news.

Thirdly a paragraph sneering at Desenfans for declining to buy a Poussin until Benjamin West declared it genuine.