Saint Mary Magdalen College, Oxford

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

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.
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, Oxford: Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Subjects

topography, genre, man, woman, academic gown, college, coat of arms, university, tower

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

John Buckler (1770 - 1851)
Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

Saint Mary Magdalen College, Oxford

Date

published 22 July 1799

Medium

Colour aquatint

Dimensions

height: 45.00 cm, width: 58.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, March 1959

GAC number

4903