Exhibition Stare Case
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"Exhibition Stare Case"[1] c. 1800 is a print by Thomas Rowlandson. It shows visitors to the Royal Academy tumbling down a steep staircase at Somerset House, now the Courtauld Institute of Art.
With this print, "Rowlandson suggests that the architect Sir William Chambers was more interested in the visual effect of his staircase than in its practical utility. He also plays with two commonplace observations about exhibition audiences: that some female spectators came to be seen as much as to see and that some male spectators were more interested in living flesh than in painted nudes. Put these three factors together and you get a typically energetic and mildly erotic composition." (British Museum)
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