Summer Exhibition master sales catalogues

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

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Reference code

RAA/REG/1

Title

Summer Exhibition master sales catalogues

Date

1839-2002

Level

Series

Extent & medium

142 volumes

Content Description

Summer Exhibition catalogues, dissected and mounted into guard books. Notations record prices of works offered for sale, together with a note if the work sold and any specific instructions from the artist, such as restructions of copyright.

Arrangement

Initially the catalogues are quarto and result in tall volumes, after the First World War the octavo catalogues are used. From 1959 a new system of loose-leaf case binders are used. These binders have been removed to better protect the contents and save space.