Part of Somerset Place
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About the work
- Location
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Country: India
City: New Delhi
Place: British High Commission
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About the artist
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.
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Explore
- Subjects
- topography, man, woman, 18th century costume, child, bollard, pavement, government building, archway, cobbles
- Materials & Techniques
- aquatint, coloured aquatint
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Details
- Title
- Part of Somerset Place
- Date
- 15 June 1796
- Medium
- Coloured aquatint
- Dimensions
- height: 34.50 cm, width: 23.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Parker Gallery, July 1974
- GAC number
- 11130