The Public Schools, & Part of Exeter College Library, from the Garden

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth; the son of a builder. He studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton jnr, before entering the Royal Academy Schools. Nash was employed by architects and drew plates for John Britton’s ‘Architectural Antiquities’ (1807) and Britton and E. W. Brayley’s ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’ (1801-09). From 1807 he worked as architectural draughtsman and lithographer to the Society of Antiquaries. In 1810, he became a member of Society of Painters in Watercolours. He also painted in oils. Nash made sketching trips to Calais, Caen, the Lake District, the Moselle and the Rhine. In 1834 he moved to Brighton. He turned to landscape painting, particularly views of Sussex, before his death in Brighton, aged 73.
John Hill was an aquatint engraver of topographical views, costume and marine subjects. He produced engravings after the work of contemporary artists, including Augustus Charles Pugin, Edward Dayes and Philip James de Loutherbourg. Hill worked in London from about 1800 to 1814. He later emigrated to the United States, where he died.

Places

England, Oxford: Exeter College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Subjects

reading (as Subject), topography, academic gown, college, path, garden, lawn, university, library, window, bench, chair

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856)
John Hill (1770 - 1850)

Title

The Public Schools, & Part of Exeter College Library, from the Garden

Date

published 1 August 1813

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Geoffrey Glynn, June 1960

GAC number

5135