Sunday 2 June 2013

What Jane Saw - a Retrospective on Sir Joshua Reynolds

My friend Claire shared this link with me, it may very well be that it's old news, but I am still delighted and happy to spend quite a few hours on the reconstructed view of the gallery (see the picture below) what Jane (yes, Jane Austen) visited :-)

www.whatjanesaw.org



Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), British Institution, Pall Mall, 1808.
Aquatint on paper. "Pub. 1st April 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts."
via www.whatjanesaw.org


You can find an interesting read-up about the project, it's goal and the many steps from idea to reality here:
http://www.whatjanesaw.org/1813/about.php