Watergate, York Buildings

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

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, London, York Buildings Watergate, York Buildings Water Works

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, smoke, river, baby, man, woman, girl, 18th century costume, child, factory, steps, chimney

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

Watergate, York Buildings

Date

Medium

Colour aquatint

Dimensions

height: 30.80 cm, width: 41.60 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, June 1951

GAC number

1329