New Somerset House and St Mary-le-Strand

Location

Country: UK
City: England
Place: Preston, Ministry of Justice

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

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, government building, church

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

New Somerset House and St Mary-le-Strand

Date

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1963

GAC number

6211