George Chambers, Four rows of female figures copied from Pyne's Rustic Figures
George Chambers, Four rows of female figures copied from Pyne's Rustic Figures

Four rows of female figures copied from Pyne's Rustic Figures, ca. 1820

George Chambers (1803 - 1840)

RA Collection: Art

This work comes from one of sixteen volumes of Royal Academy Annual Exhibition catalogues that were collected and extra-illustrated by the lawyer and antiquarian Edward Basil Jupp F.S.A. (1812 - 1877). The catalogues span the period from the first annual exhibition in 1769 up to 1875. Jupp added drawings, prints, letters and autographs by, or referring to, Academicians and other exhibitors at the Academy's annual exhibition.

E.B. Jupp was a solicitor who married Eliza Kay, daughter of the architect William Porden Kay. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a clerk of the Carpenters' Company, of which he published a history. Jupp amassed a large collection of paintings by British and Dutch artists, drawings, prints, books and porcelain most of which was sold after his death, at Christie's in February 1878.

Many of the drawings in Jupp's Royal Academy extra-illustrated volumes were bought from art sales during the 1860s. He was also acquainted with a number of contemporary artists and several drawings in the later volumes (along with many of the letters and autographs) were sent from the artists themselves.

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Object details

Artist/designer
George Chambers (1803 - 1840)
Date
ca. 1820
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Pencil and water colour on cream wove paper
Dimensions

213 mm x 163 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
03/6689
Acquisition
Given by Leverhulme Trust 1936

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Title
Four rows of female figures copied from Pyne's Rustic Figures

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Title
Three rows of female figures copied from Pyne's Rustic Figures
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