North View of Matlock Bath

Location

Country: Ireland
City: Dublin
Place: British Embassy

Joseph Farington was born in Leigh, Lancashire, son of the vicar of Leigh and rector of Warrington. He was educated in Manchester and studied under Richard Wilson in London from 1763. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769 and became an Academician in 1785. His strength was in pen, ink and wash drawings of topographical views. He made extensive sketching tours of the UK and settled in the North Country from 1776. Works made there led to the publication ‘Views of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland’ (1785). In 1780 he suffered a breakdown after his wife died. In the next year he moved to London. He died on a visit to his brother in Lancashire, when he fell down steps at Didsbury Church. His personal diaries were published in 1934.
Frederick Rudolph Hay was a line engraver, mainly of small bookplates. He also engraved landscapes, architectural subjects and topographical views after his contemporaries.

Places

England, Derbyshire

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, landscape C19th, townscape/cityscape, river, hill, cliff, stone wall, field, road, gate, house

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Joseph Farington (1747 - 1821)
Frederick Rudolph Hay (1784 - )

Title

North View of Matlock Bath

Date

published 15 May 1817

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 22 February 1977

GAC number

13033