An evening in the RA’s historic Library and Archives
Thursday 27 February 2020 6.30 - 8pm
Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
Free for Patrons, booking required.
Patrons are invited to an exclusive evening with Archivist Mark Pomeroy and Head of the Library Adam Waterton, to delve into the RA’s illustrious past.
You will explore the RA’s rich history through historic manuscripts and rare, early-printed books with the guidance of our experts in the beautiful setting of the RA’s Library.
Established at the time of the RA's foundation in 1768, the RA Library is the oldest institutional fine arts library in the UK. It holds a significant collection of books about British art and architecture from the mid-18th century to the present, with a particular focus on the life and practice of Royal Academicians, past and present.
In addition to the Academy’s own records, covering 250 years of British cultural life, the archive holds papers of the 18th Century Society of Artists and the Graphic Society, an informal Bloomsbury-based society which flourished in the mid-19th Century. The Academy also possesses many important archives of artists’ personal papers dating from 1757 to the late twentieth century.