Another Word or two; Or, Architectural Hints Continued, In Lines To Those Royal Academicians who are Painters, Addressed To Them On The Re-Election Of Benjamin West, Esquire, To The President's Chair, 10th December, 1806. By Fabricia Nunnez, Spinster. With Dedication, Preface, Notes, And Appendix. - [Epigraphs] -
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/2949
Imprint
London:: Printed For The Author; And Published By Thomas Payne, Pall Mall; And William Millar, Albemarle-Street. -, 1807.
Authorship of this pseudonymous work was acknowledged by Peter Coxe in The Social Day (1823).
The printer is named on the verso of the half-title and in the colophon: 'James Moyes, Printer, 34, Shoe Lane.'
The work is dedicated by Fabricia Nunnez to John-Henry, Marquis of Landsdowne.
References
H. Hoock, The King's Artists (2003); Benjamin West: American painter at the English court [exhibition catalogue] (1989); R.C. Alberts, Benjamin West (1978).
Summary Note
The half title reads, 'Another Word or two from Fabricia Nunnez To Those Royal Academicians Who Are Painters. - 1807.'
The text is concerned with the resignation of Benjamin West as President of the Royal Academy on 10 December 1805 (when the architect James Wyatt was elected in his stead) and his re-election on 10 December 1806. It is in rhyming tetrameters, with prose annotations. The Appendix consists of a note extracted from the 3rd edition of Martin Archer Shee's 'Rhymes on Art' and an extract from Reynolds's second Discourse.
Provenance
The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A: H', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
Binding Note
19th-century half blue morocco, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'The Re-Election Of B. West.'
Painters - Academies (organizations) - Societies - Associations - Administration - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English poetry - Polemics - Satire - Great Britain - 19th century