[London]: Printed by William Bunce, printer to the Royal Academy, MDCCLXIX
Physical Description
15 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Title
Exhibition of the Royal Academy
General Note
Major rerum mihi nafcitur ordo Virg. [t.p.]
"A mighty order of things is born" Company of artists/ Charles Saumarez Smith, London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2012
Advertisement. As the present exhibition is a part of the institution of an Academy supported by royal munificence, the public may naturally expect the liberty of being admitted without any expense. The Academicians therefore think it necessary to declare, that this was very much their desire, but that they have not been able to suggest any other means, than that of receiving money for admittance, to prevent the room from being filled by improper persons, to the entire exclusion of those for whom the exhibition is apparently intended. [t.p. recto]
[First copy:] Catalogues for the exhibitions: 1769-1782 bound in one volume. Bound in 20th-century light brown buckram; black morocco spine-labels lettered in gold 'Exhibitions of the Royal Academy' and 'MDCCLXIX to MDCCLXXXII'