2-699-258 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The First Royal Academy; About 1740', (1881). The Royal Academy of Arts in London was founded in 1768. Its first location, (shown here), was on Pall Mall in Westminster. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]