Sir, the building for the Virginia Museum, in this city is now nearly completed : and the establishment will, we flatter ourselves, be opened early the ensuing summer. : It is our wish to have annual exhibitions of the works of art ... Many artists have productions on hand, which they would like to dispose of, in Richmond ..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virginia Museum (Founded 1817)

Contributor:

Warrell, James, approximately 1780-approximately 1854.

Lorton, Richard, 1779-

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41986.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virginia Museum (Founded 1817).

Art galleries, Commercial--Virginia--Richmond.

Art galleries, Commercial.

Painting, American--Exhibitions.

Painting, American.

Virginia--Richmond.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Advertisements -- Art galleries, Commercial.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Richmond] : [publisher not identified], [1817]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"The first annual exhibition to take place the first Monday in October next; each individual sending any specimen of art must have it framed, and may be assured attention will be used to place it advantageously ..."

Dated: Richmond, Virginia. [Blank] 181[blank].

The original, held by the New York Historical Society, is signed in ms. by James Warrell & R. Lorton and dated 4th March, 1817.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41986).

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