Georgetown, British Guyana

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Edward Angelo Goodall was the son of Edward Goodall, the engraver of J.M.W. Turner’s works. He was apprenticed to his father’s office. Goodall accompanied a Prussian expedition to Guyana, serving as its artist. He was appointed war artist in Crimea for the 'Illustrated London News'.
Topographical painter, watercolourist and lithographer William Parrott was the son of a farmer from Aveley, in Essex. He was initially apprenticed to engraver John Pye but later virtually abandoned engraving in favour of watercolour painting. Parrott exhibited in London at the Royal Academy (1835-63) and also at the British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere. He lived briefly in Paris (1842-43) and then Rome (1844-45), and published a series of twelve lithographs titled ‘Paris et ses Environs’ (1843). In 1851 he made a tour of Germany and he also paid frequent visits to Brittany and Normandy. Parrott occasionally painted figure subjects, including a caricature of J. M. W. Turner (1840; Ruskin Museum, Oxford).

Places

South America, Guyana, Georgetown

Subjects

ladder, handcart, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, tree, palm, smoke, man, woman, flag, soldier, fence, house, chimney

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

Edward Angelo Goodall (1819 - 1908)
William Parrott (1813 - 1869)

Title

Georgetown, British Guyana

Date

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Frederick B Daniell, April 1952

Inscription

below image [centre, in pencil] Georgetown

GAC number

1479