Academy Collection (page 14)

Royal Academy Private View
A private view: as much a social occasion as a cultural event

Royal Academy 1810
The hall of the Royal Academy, at this time housed in Somerset House; in 1837 it will move to Trafalgar Square, and finally in 1868 to Burlington House, Piccadilly

Social / Ra Show 1820
Fashionable art lovers attend an exhibition at the Royal Academy

Soldiers & Horses
Cadets at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr groom their horses

Learning Riding Skills
Cadets at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr learn the finer points of riding

Drill at Saint-Cyr
Drill parade at Saint-Cyr, Frances leading military academy of Saint-Cyr, founded by Napoleon I and located near Fontainebleau (since then it has been relocated)

Fencing at Saint-Cyr
Training in fencing at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr, Frances leading military academy. Date: circa 1900

Optical Telegraph
Optical telegraph used by cadets at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr

Learning about Horses
Cadets at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr learn about the anatomy of the horses they will ride

Entrance to Saint-Cyr
The entrance to Frances leading military academy of Saint-Cyr, founded by Napoleon I and located near Fontainebleau (since then it has been relocated)

Woolwich / Academy / Anon
The ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY - soldiers exercising on the parade ground

Edinburgh Academy 1830
The New Edinburgh Academy

Reynolds / Plympton School
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS House (next door to the Grammar School) at Plympton, Devon, where the English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy was born

Reynolds / Plympton Devon
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS House at Plympton, Devon, where the English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy was born

Reynolds / Miniature / Craft
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy

Cricket in the 18th Cen
Cricket being played at The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields

Berlin Dance School 1929
At a Berlin dance academy, pupils learn with the help of film and gramophone, though watching the screen while minding your partner and your neighbours can t be easy !

Royal Academy, 1840
A Private View of the Royal Academy annual exhibition : the walls are more crowded, the rooms less so, than today

C16 Music Academy
The academy of Franchino Gaforio (1451 - 1522) showing his theory of harmony linking music and geometry; his banner translates as Harmony is discordant concord

Daguerres Discovery
Daguerres discovery of an effective permanent photographic process, is announced by Arago to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Date: 10 August 1839

New Military Academy
The Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; soldiers line up on the parade ground

Academie Francaise
Allegorical depiction of the academy showing toga clad men of learning surrounded by scientific instruments participating in all branches of the arts & sciences

Gulliver in Lagado
Gulliver visits the Academy where he finds scientists engaged in such activities as extracting sunbeams from cucumbers

J. Reynolds / Self / Cochran
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy

J / Reynolds / Self / Bond Eng
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy

Charlemagne & Culture
Charlemagne inaugurates an academy of letters

Clelia Borromeo-Grillo
CLELIA BORROMEO-GRILLO wife of conte Giovanni Borromeo, proficient in seven languages, knowledgeable in mathematics and mechanics, had an academy in her own palace

Academie Francaise 1867
The reception of M. Cuvillier Fleury at the French Academy; the most celebrated of the five academies included in the Institut

Cavour as a Cadet
Cavour as a cadet at the Military Academy, orino

Royal Academy Visitors
A crowded scene of smartly- dressed men, women and children visiting the Royal Academy in London to look at and discuss the paintings

Running at Woolwich
Men from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, Kent, compete in a running race which takes them over obstacles such as this pool into which some are diving

STRAND (1779)
Looking eastward along the Strand, with St Mary-le-Strand on the left, and Somerset House, housing the Royal Academy, on the right Date: 1779

Ballet dancers rehearsing Rouet d Armor
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing a new opera-ballet by Adolphe Piriou, Rouet d Armor (Wheel of Armour)

Ballet dancers waiting to rehearse
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse in their costumes, waiting to rehearse

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