Diploma para los académicos de la Royal Academy of Arts

Bibliografía +

Matilla, José Manuel, 'Varios autores. Colección Furió de estampas sobre el mundo del Arte, siglos XVI al XIX', En: Memoria de Actividades 2022, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, 2023, pp. 34-37.

Otros inventarios +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 3080.

Inscripciones +

F. Bartollozzi Engraver
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LABOR ET INGENIVM // ROYAL ACADE/ OF ARTS / INSTITVTE ED MDCCLXVIII // GEORGE THE THIRD, BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, / FRANCE , AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c. / TO OVR TRVSTY AND WELL-BELOVED HENRY THOMSON, ESQVIRE, / GREETING. // WHEREAS WE HAVE THOVGHT FIT TO ESTABLISH, IN THIS OVR CITY OF LONDON, A SOCIETY FOR / THE PVRPOSES OF CVLTIVATING AND IMPROVING THE ARTS OF PAINTING, SCVLPTVRE, AND / ARCHITECTVRE, VNDER THE NAME AND TITLE OF " THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS", AND VNDER / OVR OWN INMEDIATE PATRONAGE AND PROTECTION: AND WHEREAS WE HAVE RESOLVED TO / ENTRVST THE SOLE MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION OF THE SAID SOCIETY, VNDER VS. VNTO/ FORTY ACADEMICIANS, THE MOST ABLE AND RESPECTABLE ARTISTS RESIDENT IN GREAT- BRITAIN: / WE, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION OF YOVR GRAT SKILL IN THE ART OF PAINTING, / DO, BY THESE PRESENTS, CONSTITVTE AND APPOINT YOV TO BE ONE OF THE FORTY ACADEMICIANS / OF OVR SAID ROYAL ACADEMY; HEREBY GRANTING VNTO YOV ALL THE HONORS, PRIVILEGES, AND / EMOLVMENTS, THEREOF, ACCORDING TO THE TENOR OF THE INSTITVTION. GIVEN VNDER OVR / ROYAL SIGN MANVAL, VPON THE TENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOVSAND SEDEN HVNDRED/ AND SIXTY EIGHT, AND IN THE NINTH YEAR OF OVR REIGN. / AND WE ARE THE MORE READILY INDVCED TO CONFER VPON YOV THIS HONORABLE DISTINCTION / AS WE ARE FIRMLY PERSVADED THAT YOV WILL, VPON EVERY OCASSION, EXERT YOVRSELF IN / SVPPORT OF THE HONOR, INTEREST, AND DIGNITY, OF THE SAID ESTABLISHMENT; AND THAT YOV / WILL FAITHFVLLY AND ASSIDVOVSLY DISCHARGE THE DVTIES OF THE SEVERAL OFFICES TO WHICH / YOU SHALL BE NOMINATED. / IN CONSEQVENCE OF THIS OVR GRACIOVS RESOLVTION, IT IS OVR PRESVRE THAT YOVR NAME / BE FORTHWITH INSERTED IN THE ROLL OF THE ACADEMICIANS, AND THAT YOV DO SVBSCRIBE / THE OBLIGATION IN THE FORM AND MANNER PRESCRIBED. / GIVEN AT OVR ROYAL PALACE OF SAINT IAMES´S, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF APRIL, / FORTY FOURTH TEAR OF OVR REIGN. / ROYAL /ACADEMY / LONDON / 1768 // J. B. Cipriani in.t et del.t -- F. Bartollo Transcripción de la letra. Anverso