Sheldonian and Clarendon Building, Oxford

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

Thomas Malton junior was a teacher of perspective, draughtsman, etcher and aquatint engraver of views after his own designs and caricatures after Thomas Rowlandson. He was born in London, the son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton senior and the brother of James Malton, who also became a well known draughtsman and aquatint engraver. Malton junior worked in Dublin for three years for the architect John Gandon and later studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He also worked as a scene painter, as well as running evening drawing classes, at which Turner took lessons in perspective. From 1796 until 1804 he lived in Long Acre, off St. Martin’s Lane. He is best known for his careful drawings of London buildings.

Places

England, Oxford: the Clarendon Building, Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Subjects

theatre, topography, townscape/cityscape, road, gate, street, pavement, house, door, window

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

Sheldonian and Clarendon Building, Oxford

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 29.00 cm, width: 37.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, May 1964

GAC number

6437