North Front of Westminster Abbey

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Office for Budget Responsibility, 102 Petty France

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, Westminster Abbey, Westminster

Subjects

topography, tree, dog, boy, man, woman, abbey, church windows, buttress, facade, door

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

North Front of Westminster Abbey

Date

30 January 1793

Medium

Colour aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, April 1951

GAC number

1290