Art on the line: the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836

Preface: 'The Exhibition'

Introduction: 'This Great Mart of Genius': The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 / David H. Solkin

1. Architecture and Experience: The Visitor and the Spaces of Somerset House, 1780-1796 / John Murdoch

2. Staging the Spectacle / John Sunderland and David H. Solkin

3. 'A Shilling Well Laid Out': The Royal Academy's Early Public / C. S. Matheson

4. 'Stare Cases': Engendering the Public's Two Bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts / K. Dian Kriz

5. 'The Business of Criticism': The Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London / Mark Hallett

6. Sublime as Spectacle: The Transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House / Martin Myrone

7. 'Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!' / Marcia Pointon

8. Spectacle of the Muse: Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy / Gill Perry

9. Landscape-O-Rama: The Exhibition Landscape at Somerset House and the Rise of Popular Landscape Entertainments / Ann Bermingham

10. Turner Fires a Gun / Michael Rosenthal

11. Crowds and Connoisseurs: Looking at Genre Painting at Somerset House / David H. Solkin

12. Art in the Dark: Viewing and Exhibiting Sculpture at Somerset House / Alison Yarrington

13. Watercolourists and Watercolours at the Royal Academy, 1780-1836 / Greg Smith

14. Exhibiting Architecture: Strategies of Representation in English Architectural Exhibition Drawings, 1760-1836 / Nicholas Savage

15. Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836 / Sarah Hyde

16. Foreign Exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, 1768-1823 / Anne Puetz

17. Taste and the Multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in Continental Eyes / William Vaughan.