Lot 92
92
The Royal Family visiting the Royal Academy, an unmounted fan leaf, a stipple engraving printed in colour after J.H. Ramberg - 17in. (43cm.), wide, published by Antonio Poggi [1790] - in early 19th century carved wood gilt frame, surmounted by a crown labelled Dixon, carver and gilder, glazed
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The Royal Family visiting the Royal Academy, an unmounted fan leaf, a stipple engraving printed in colour after J.H. Ramberg - 17in. (43cm.), wide, published by Antonio Poggi [1790] - in early 19th century carved wood gilt frame, surmounted by a crown labelled Dixon, carver and gilder, glazed

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The Royal Family visiting the Royal Academy, an unmounted fan leaf, a stipple engraving printed in colour after J.H. Ramberg - 17in. (43cm.), wide, published by Antonio Poggi [1790] - in early 19th century carved wood gilt frame, surmounted by a crown labelled Dixon, carver and gilder, glazed
See Colour Plate 5
Exhibited
Fan Makers' Hall, 1980, cat. no. 28
Royal Fans, Salisbury Museum, 1985, cat. no. 24
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Lot Essay

Poggi took the figures from a print by P. A. Martini after Ramberg of the Royal Family's visit to the Royal Academy in 1778: he removed Sir Joshua Reynolds and other Academicians, added the youngest members of the Royal family and altered the pictures to those in the later exhibition, and added a view of Windsor Castle through a door.
There are mounted versions of this fan in The Royal Collection and The Victoria and Albert Museum (T.56-1933).
Not in the Schreiber Collection which has a cut down version of the Martini plate (S.U.34, S.E.18)

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