Title page of the 1789 Academy catalogue

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Reference code

AND/7/101

Title

Title page of the 1789 Academy catalogue

Date

1789

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Pasted to the rear are several newspaper cuttings.

Firstly, an anonymous squib on the recent Academy activities of Sir William Chambers, suggesting he acts with a high hand towards his fellow Academicians.

Secondly a brief notice of the exhibition of 1789, declaring it poorer than the year before.

Thirdly a brief paragraph revealing that Mr. Marlow desires to be a member fo the Academy.

Fourthly an account of the Annual Dinner of 1789, noticing the major guests, and that [Richard] Cosway was the only guest to sport a "bag and Sword". A tone is scurrilousness is maintained in an account of a dispute between Cosway and [Ozias] Humphry.