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General Assembly minutes, vol. 1

14 Dec 1768 - 10 Dec 1796

Item RAA/GA/1/1
Council minutes, vol. 1

20 Dec 1768 - 31 Dec 1784

Item RAA/PC/1/1
Council minutes, vol. 19

10 Jan 1888 - 14 Dec 1893

Item RAA/PC/1/19
Council minutes, vol. 24

09 May 1918 - 31 Jul 1923

Item RAA/PC/1/24
Part of a letter from T. Gainsborough [to the Secretary, or the Hanging Committee]

[Apr] 1784

Item RAA/SEC/1/2
Letter from Gainsborough to the Committee of gentlemen appointed to hang the Pictures at the Royal Exhibition [the Hanging Committee]

Saturday Morn [Apr] 1783

Item RAA/SEC/1/3
Letter from T. Gainsborough to Newton

[Apr 1783]

Item RAA/SEC/1/4
Press cutting of announcement of sale of works by the late Thomas Gainsborough

1789

Item RAA/SEC/1/45
Correspondence relating to Thomas Gainsborough, RA

c. 1780 - 1800

Sub-series RAA/SEC/2/35
Thomas Gainsborough, member's file

1882-1927

File RAA/LIB/2/72
Ben. de Cosson, 20 Redcliffe Gardens, South Kensington, to the Secretary

26 Feb 1880

File RAA/LIB/7/3
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner, preview release and iamge sheet

17 Oct 2012

Item RAA/PRE/2/1/602
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the making of Landscape

2012-2013

Item RAA/PRE/5/2/515
Notes by Anderdon

[c.1870]

Item AND/1/37
Note by Anderdon on the ages of the "great founders of this new school of art"

[c.1870]

Item AND/1/40
[incomplete copy] [Thomas Gainsborough], to Hon. Mr. Stratford

[c.1777]

Item AND/3/111
Photographic reproduction of Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of his wife Margaret Gainsborough

16 Apr 1863

Item AND/4/19
Anderdon's notes on exhibit #62, by Thomas Gainsborough

[c.1870]

Item AND/4/90
Pages 5 and 6 of the 1782 Academy exhibition catalogue

1782

Item AND/5/31
Anderdon's notes on the burial locations of Thomas Gainsborough and Jeremiah Meyer

1 Feb 1863

Item AND/5/109
Newspaper cutting, signed "J.S." and relating to Thomas Gainsborough

[c.1850]

Item AND/5/123
[copy] Extract from a newspaper relating to the withdrawal of Thomas Gainsborough from Academy exhibitions

23 Apr 1784

Item AND/5/157
Anderdon's biographical notes on Thomas Gainsborough

11 Jul 1865

Item AND/5/163
Introductory page to volume 4 [7]

[c.1870]

Item AND/7/1