University and Queen’s Colleges, High Street

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Augustus Charles Pugin fled to England in the 1790s, either because of his Royalism or on account of a duel. He seems to have landed in Wales, where he became a friend of the architect John Nash (1752–1835). He worked as a general artist, providing designs for Nash and painting scenery, before moving to London and studying at the Royal Academy Schools. He first exhibited architectural designs at the Academy in 1799 and, from 1807, began to exhibit at the Old Watercolour Society. Pugin worked on several projects for Rudolf Ackermann, including plates for The Microcosm of London and The Abbey Church of Westminster (1811–12). During this period he set up a school of architectural drawing and began to publish his own works. He was the father of A. W. N. Pugin, who designed the interiors of the Houses of Parliament.
John Hill was an aquatint engraver of topographical views, costume and marine subjects. He produced engravings after the work of contemporary artists, including Augustus Charles Pugin, Edward Dayes and Philip James de Loutherbourg. Hill worked in London from about 1800 to 1814. He later emigrated to the United States, where he died.

Places

England, Oxford: High Street, Oxford: University College, Oxford: Queen's College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Subjects

carriage, horseback, statue (as Subject), sculpture (as Subject), topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, dog, horse, man, woman, academic gown, parasol, college, street, pavement, university

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Hill (1770 - 1850)

Title

University and Queen’s Colleges, High Street

Date

published 1 June 1813

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Geoffrey Glynn, June 1960

GAC number

5134