North East View of the Cathedral Church of Ely

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Buckler was born on the Isle of Wight. In 1785 he became a steward of Magdalen College, Oxford. For seven years he was also apprenticed to architect and surveyor Charles Thomas Cracklow. In about 1801 he became Bailiff and Collector of Rents for Magdalen College in Freemason’s Court and Southwark. His post with Magdalen allowed him spare time, which he spent working on his own architectural perspective drawings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1849. In 1799, Buckler published an engraving of one of his drawings of Lincoln Cathedral. For the next five years he made a series of views of English cathedrals and churches. By the end of his career, he had produced some 13,000 architectural perspective drawings.
Richard Reeve was an aquatint engraver, mostly of sporting subjects (hunting and racing scenes) after works by contemporary artists. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and lived and worked in London. He was the father of aquatint engravers Richard Gilson Reeve (1803-1889) and Augustus William Reeve (born 1807). Some later works, apparently by Richard, may in fact be by his son Richard Gilson.

Places

England, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire

Subjects

topography, man, coat of arms, church, cathedral, church windows, tower

Materials & Techniques

aquatint

Artist

John Buckler (1770 - 1851)
Richard Reeve (1780 - c1835)

Title

North East View of the Cathedral Church of Ely

Date

published June 1811

Medium

Aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 20 February 1958

GAC number

4557