Royal Academy pictures and sculpture
Royal Academy pictures and sculpture is a 1908 illustrated annual published in London and New York by Cassell, reproducing works shown by the Royal Academy of Arts of Great Britain. The plates are rotated on the page and show black-and-white reproductions of paintings and one sculpture, with portraits of seated and standing sitters, a group portrait, a genre scene of figures outside a cottage, and a marble figure on a horse. A designer might take from them the formal conventions of Edwardian academic portraiture, with its dark backgrounds, soft modelling and dignified poses.
