Certificate admitting William Hodges to the Royal Academy. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Cipriani, 1786.
- Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
- Date:
- 1786
- Reference:
- 26483i
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Description
Hercules and a male figure holding a torch, representing genius or inspiration, stand either side of a roundel surrounded by wreath with laurel. Above the figures is a banner with the words: Labor et ingenium; the roundel contains the following group of figures: the Muses of painting, sculpture and architecture, with Britannia and a lion; seated on a plinth is a female figure with a crown, next to a statue of Pallas Athena. Lettering on the plinth reads: Royal Acade[my] of Arts instituted MDCCLXVIII. All the above supported by plinth, the front of which contains a statement of admission to the Royal Academy. Below this, a blind stamp is set within a shell surrounded by a wreath; either side are artists' materials.
Publication/Creation
[London] : Royal Academy, 1786.
Physical description
1 print : engraving with etching, with blue blind stamp
Lettering
His Majesty having been graciously pleased to establish in this city of London, a society for the purposes of cultivating and improving the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture. ... G.B. Cipriani invt. et delt. ; F. Bartolozzi Engraver to his Majesty sculpt.
Lettering continues: "under the name and title of the Royal Academy of Arts, and under his own immediate patronage and protection: and his Majesty having thought fit to intrust the sole management and direction of the said society, under himself, unto forty academicians, with a power to elect a certain number of associates: we therefore, the President and academicians of the said Royal Academy, by virtue of the said power, and in consideration of your skill in the art of painting do by these presents constitute and appoint you William Hodges, gentleman, to be one of the associates of the Royal Academy: hereby granting unto you all the privileges thereof, according to the tenour of the laws relating to the admission of associates, made in the general assemby of the academicians, and confirmed by His Majesty's sign manual. In consequence of this resolution, you are required to sign the obligation in the manner prescribed, and the secretary is hereby directed to insert your name in the roll of the associates
Signed by hand in brown ink: Joshua Reynolds Prest. [President] ; T.M. Newton Sec. [Secretary]. Dated in brown ink: 13 Nov. 1786
Bears circular blind stamp on blue paper; lettering surrounded by wreath: Royal Academy London 1768
Reference
Wellcome Collection 26483i
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