View on the Thames at Vauxhall

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Aquatint engraver Francis Jukes was born in Martley, Worcestershire. Nothing is known of his parents. He initially worked as a topographical painter, before becoming one of the first British aquatint engravers. He is thought to have learnt the method from Paul Sandby and some of his first aquatints are after Sandby’s designs. Dukes mainly produced prints of landscape or seascape subjects. He illustrated the Rev. William Gilpin’s ‘Observations on the River Wye’ (published 1782). His early prints were published in collaboration with Valentine Green and he later collaborated with Robert Pollard. Illness towards the end of his life may have been caused by fumes from the acid he used in the aquatinting process. He died in 1812, aged about 67.

Places

England, London

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, river

Materials & Techniques

aquatint

Artist

Robert Cleveley (1747 - 1809)
Francis Jukes (1745 - 1812)

Title

View on the Thames at Vauxhall

Date

1786

Medium

Aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1957

GAC number

3913