Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Society of Artists of Great Britain

Title:

A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / Society of Artists of Great Britain.

Published / Created:

[London] : The Society, 1760-1791.

Physical Description:

23 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N5055 S6 C3 copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N5055 S6 C3 copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Reference Library
Suppressed N5055.S6 C3 1760A (LC)

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Periodicals

Notes:

BEIN 1980 S2: Bound in 1 v.

BAC : BAC has 2 copies of 1761 catalogue (2nd exhibition). Copy 1 is imperfect: frontispiece wanting.

BAC : British Art Center copy incomplete: catalogues for 1760 (1st exhibition), 1783 (21st), 1790-1791 (22nd-23rd) are wanting.

Plates in 1761 & 1762 catalogues (2nd-3rnd exhibition) by Charles Grignion; after William Hogarth and Samuel Wale.

See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic work, nos. 243-244 for description of frontispiece and plate in 1761 catalogue. BAC copy differs slightly from versions described there.

BAC,REF copy: Photocopy of volumes in Walpole Library.

Exhibition held annually from 1760-1778 (1st-19th exhibitions). There was no exhibition in 1779, the 20th was held in 1780, no exhibitions 1781-1782, the 21st in 1783, no exhibitions 1784-1789, the 22nd in 1790, and the 23rd (the last) exhibition was held in 1791.

Title varies slightly.

1762: Preface (4 p.) by Samuel Johnson.

Graves, A. Society of Artists of Great Britain.

Subject Terms:

Art, British -- Exhibitions. | Art, Modern -- 17th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. | Art, Modern -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. | Society of Artists of Great Britain -- Publisher. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1761–1780.

Contributors:

Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810, engraver. | Hogarth, William, 1697–1764, ill. | Wale, Samuel, -1786, ill. | Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784.