The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. MDCCCLXXXVIII. The one hundred and twentieth.

Royal Academy of Arts (London)

RA Collection: Book

Record number

17/66

Author

Royal Academy of Arts (London)

Imprint

London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons Limited, 14 Charing Cross, printers to the Royal Academy, MDCCCLXXXVIII

Physical Description

80 p. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

Exhibition of the Royal Academy

General Note

"Behold, I said, 'the painter's sphere!

In outward semblance he must give

A moment's fife of things that live;

Then let him choose his moment well,

With power divine its story tell. - Matthew Arnold, Epilogue to Lessing's Laocoon. t.p.

Reproductions

View a digitised version of this exhibition catalogue here: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/exhibition-catalogue/ra-sec-vol120-1888

Binding Note

[First copy] Catalogues for the exhibitions: 1885-1894 bound in one volume. Bound in 20th-century light brown buckram; black spine-label lettered in gold 'Exhibitions of the Royal Academy' and '1885-1894'

Name as Subject

Royal Academy of Arts (London)

Contributors

William Clowes and Sons Ltd., printer
Royal Academy of Arts (London), publisher