[a. It. studio: see STUDY sb.]
† 1. Fine Art. = STUDY sb. 10. Obs. rare–1.
1819. Shelley, Lett. to Peacock, 25 Feb. The most remarkable is the original studio by Michael Angelo of the ‘Day of Judgment.’
2. The work-room of a sculptor or painter; also that of a photographer.
1819. Edin. Rev., XXXII. 322. The greatest work which proceeded from his [Cimabue’s] studio, was his scholar Giotto.
1820. T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily, I. x. 282. We had seen some beautiful casts from different figures of this sculpture in the studio of Monsieur Fauvel.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, IV. xi. 363. Chantrey requested that Scott would come and breakfast with him next morning before they recommenced operations in the studio.
1881. Spons’ Encycl. Industr. Arts, IV. 1536. The ‘studio’ pertains to professional photography…. It is … a well-lighted apartment in close proximity to the dark room.
1897. Watts-Dunton, Aylwin, III. ix. In the studios of artists she was in request as a face model of extraordinary value.
b. transf. ? Obs.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, v. I would as soon have thought … of volunteering to take an arm-chair in a dentist’s studio, and have a tooth out, as of entering into that awful precinct.
3. attrib.
1891. Kipling, Light that Failed, xiii. (1900), 226. Somebody hammered at the studio door.
1894. Du Maurier, Trilby, II. I. 120. He … found studio French a different language altogether from the formal and polite language he had been at such pains to acquire.
1894. Outing, XXIV. 31/1. When it blows great guns and the rain comes down … there is plenty of studio work to do, and plenty of fine old lofts with improvised studio windows to do it in.
1908. A. M. Hind, Engraving & Etching, 175. Two other large etchings have generally been regarded by recent criticism as studio productions.
