Quadrangle, Somerset House

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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, Somerset House

Subjects

statue (as Subject), topography, architectural plan/technical drawing, townscape/cityscape, government building, house, dome, facade, courtyard, window, chimney

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), pencil, ink, drawing (Art object type), wash

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

Quadrangle, Somerset House

Date

c.1780

Medium

Pencil, pen and ink with wash on paper

Dimensions

height: 33.50 cm, width: 48.00 cm

Acquisition

Transferred from HM Revenue and Customs, January 2011

Inscription

bc: QUADRANGLE SOMERSET HOUSE. SKETCH BY MALTON

Provenance

Bequest of Sir Ernest Clark to the Inland Revenue, 1951 (received 1972); transferred to GAC January 2011

GAC number

10265