The Clarendon Printing House, Theatre & Museum

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Frederick Mackenzie trained as a pupil of architect John Adey Repton. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy at 16 and soon afterwards began working for antiquary and topographer John Britton, illustrating Britton’s publications. From 1813, he exhibited his work at the Society of Painters in Watercolours, showing 97 paintings there in total. His early exhibits were almost exclusively views of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, while later exhibits were mainly English churches and cathedrals. He was elected a member of the Society in 1823 and served as its Treasurer from 1831. He also continued to illustrate books, three of which he published. In his 50s he married Mary Hine, a widow. He died at their home, near Regent’s Park, aged about 65.
Joseph Constantine Stadler was a prolific German émigré engraver of images after his contemporaries. His engravings are wide-ranging in subject matter and include landscapes, seascapes and portraits, as well as military, sporting and decorative subjects. Stadler was employed by the leading print publisher of the time, John Boydell (1720-1804). On 23 March 1799 Stadler married Ann Elizabeth Sandman at St Anne’s Church, Soho, in London. He was living in Knightsbridge when he died at the age of 73.

Places

England, Oxford: the Clarendon Building, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Subjects

shepherd, theatre, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, sheep, man, woman, academic gown, student, child, railing, pavement, museum, house, steps, door, window

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Frederick Mackenzie (1787 - 1854)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)

Title

The Clarendon Printing House, Theatre & Museum

Date

published 1 April 1814

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Geoffrey Glynn, June 1960

GAC number

5145