An Exhibition

January 29, 1776

Not on view

Loutherbourg moved from Paris to London in 1771 and was employed by David Garrick to transform the sets and lighting effects at the Drury Lane Theatre. During this busy decade he produced caricatures including this humorous take on visitors, possibly at one of the Royal Academy's early displays (that institution used cramped rooms on Pall Mall between 1769 and 1779). Published January 1776, this prints contains figures similar to those found in Loutherbourg's six "Caricatures of the English" (first issued February 1775; see 62.600.556, .557, 2007.49.362). "An Exhibition" was published by another Frenchman, Victor Marie Picot, who had settled in London the previous decade and ran a print shop on St. Martin's Lane.

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Title: An Exhibition
Artist: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, Strasbourg 1740–1812 London)
Publisher: Victor Marie Picot (French, Monthières 1744–1802 Amiens)
Date: January 29, 1776
Medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in sanguine ink; second state
Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (21.3 x 23.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Object Number: 59.600.55
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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