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• Author/Creator:British School.
  
• Title:A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.
  
• Published/Created:[London?] : [s.n.], [1802?]
  
• Physical Description:20 p. ; 21 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: N1165 B74 P7 1802
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:This copy includes a List of subscribers to the British School, paged [33]-39, and bound in at end, and printed on different paper than the Prospectus. It may have originally appeared in the Catalogue to the exhibition at the British School.
  
• Notes:The British School was founded by John Thomas Serres, George Field, and William Ashford in 1802 to be an alternative to Royal Academy, for theshowing and sale of original British art. It was not a financial success & the venture lasted only 18 months. George Field is probably the author of this prospectus.
  Head-piece engraved by J. Berryman.
  
• Variant and related titles:List of subscribers to the British School.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Whitley, W. Art in England, 1800-1820 (1973 ed.), p. 45-48.
  
• Subjects:British School.
  Art galleries, Commercial--Great Britain.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--[1802?].
  
• Genre/Form:Prospectuses.
  Wood engravings--[1802?].
  
• Also listed under:Serres, John Thomas, 1759-1825.
  Ashford, William, ca. 1746-1824.
  Field, George, 1777?-1854.
  Berryman, J., fl. 1824, engraver.