A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 14, 1770 / by the President [Sir Joshua Reynolds]
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).
ESTC, T31952 ; T31951
Hilles, F.W. The literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1936., 5, 6 & p. 39.
Summary Note
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.
Binding Note
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'.
Subject
Art - Painting - Theory
Student competitions - Students - Great Britain - London - 18th century
Speeches - Lectures - Great Britain - London - 18th century
Speeches - Lectures - Great Britain - London - 18th century