Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2 by Joseph Grego

1811. _Royal Academy, Somerset House, London._ Rowlandson fecit.--The

members, who are studying from the nude, are all well advanced in years. The seats and drawing-stands of the old Life Academy are arranged in a horseshoe; the first or inner row of students being seated, while those who form the outer semicircle are standing at their easels. An agreeable and graceful-looking female model is posed beneath the reflectors in an easy attitude which she is preserving with the assistance of a looped rope slung from the roof.