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003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20230718123127.0
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Reynolds, Joshua
245 1 2 $a A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 14, 1770 / $c by the President [Sir Joshua Reynolds]
246 3 # $a A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10 1771. By The President.
260 # # $a London $b Printed for Thomas Davies [by William Griffin], Bookseller to the Royal Academy. $c MDCCLXXI. (MDCCLXXII.) $c [1771. (1772.)]
300 # # $a 2 volumes in one; $c 273 mm. (Folio.)
490 0 # $a Reynolds Discourse $v III & IV.
500 # # $a Vol. I: [4], 20 pages - Vol. II: [2], 29, [1] pages.
500 # # $a Printer identified by F.W. Hilles.
500 # # $a Half-title of 1770 discourse: `A Discourse, &c.'
500 # # $a Reynolds' 3rd and 4th Discourses.
500 # # $a `[ Price 1s. 6d. ]' [Half-title of 1770 discourse].
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Half-title, t.p.] - [Text]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - [Text].
510 0 # $a J. Reynolds, Discourses on art, ed. P. Rogers (2000); J. Barrell, The political theory of painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (1986); W.J. Hipple, 'General and particular in the Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds', in Journal Aesth. and Art Crit., 11 (1953), p.231-47 (rev. in The beautiful, the sublime and the picturesque in 18th-century British aesthetic theory, 1957).
510 0 # $a ESTC $c T31952 ; T31951
510 0 # $a Hilles, F.W. The literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1936. $c 5, 6 & p. 39.
520 2 # $a Reynolds's first Discourse was delivered at the opening of the Academy on 2 January 1769; the remainder were delivered in December at the Academy's awards of prizes to students - numbers II-V annually (1769-1772), numbers VI-XV every two years (1774-1790) with the exception of number IX, delivered in October 1780 to mark the Academy's move into Somerset House.

The principal theme of the 1770 discourse is the need for a Grand Style.
563 # # $a 19th-century brown cloth-covered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, retaining earlier black morocco spine-label lettered in gold: 'The President Address To The Students Of The Royal Academy'.
653 # # $a Art - Painting - Theory
653 # # $a Student competitions - Students - Great Britain - London - 18th century
653 # # $a Speeches - Lectures - Great Britain - London - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Speeches - Lectures - Great Britain - London - 18th century
700 1 # $a Davies $e publisher
700 1 # $a Griffin, William $e printer
710 2 # $a Royal Academy of Arts (London). President