Main entry:

Shanhagan, Roger.

Title & Author:

The exhibition, or, A second anticipation : being remarks on the principal works to be exhibited next month at the Royal Academy / by Roger Shanhagan, Gent.

Publication:

London : Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, [1779]

Description:

[2], 101, [1] pages ; 22 cm (8vo in 4s)

Notes:
Bound with: Delauney. History of a French Louse. London, 1779.
Satire on the art exhibition of 1779 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London; written in the style of Richard Tickell's Anticipation.
HRC copy imperfect: t.p. wanting.
TxU-Hu
Title page transcription from NUC pre-1956, where NYPL copy has imprint date as [1779?] and LC copy has date as [1785]. BM has imprint date as [1779?].
Verso of t.p. and p. [1] at end blank.
Roger Shanhagen is a pseudonym. The authors are William Porden, Robert Smirke, and a painter named Watson.

Subject:

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Art Exhibitions.
Art Expositions.
Art
Art England London. Exhibitions.
Architecture England

Form/genre:

humor.
Humor
Exhibition catalogs
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Humour.

Added entries:

Porden, William, 1755-1822.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 90668
Call No.: ID N5054.S5; ID:95-B4896
Status: Available