A Market-Day in Bangor

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

The original watercolour, on which this print is based, is in the collection of Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery in Bangor.

Joseph Josiah Dodd was born in 1810 in Liverpool. His family later moved to Tonbridge, Kent. During the 1830s he gained a reputation as a topographical artist and engraver. In 1835, Queen Victoria was presented with a volume of Dodd’s watercolours of Tonbridge when she visited the town. Dodd was exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists at this time. He lived for a year in Paris from 1838, after which he spent his remaining years in Lancashire and Wales. He taught drawing, geometry, perspective and architectural drawing at the Manchester School of Design in the 1840s, before moving his family to Bangor in about 1859. He spent his final years in Oldham, Lancashire, where he died aged 86.

Places

Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd

Subjects

herdsman, carriage, cart, horse-drawn bus, bus, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, cow, dog, horse, Welsh, boy, man, woman, girl, handbag, market, vendor, basket, jug, plate, teapot, street, pavement, hotel, chimney, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Joseph Josiah Dodd (1809 - 1880)
J Walker

Title

A Market-Day in Bangor

Date

13 April 1856

Medium

Colour lithograph

Dimensions

height: 35.50 cm, width: 52.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, November 1959

GAC number

5028