The King's Artists
Subtitle: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 17, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780199279098
First sentence: The Royal Academy of Arts of England is, with regard to the Arts of Design, the first, and consequently the most subordinate, step in the career of national refinement, but it is the proper link which unites the progress of the arts with the greatness of the nation.