St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Somersetshire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Charles Wickes was born in Charlton, Kent; the son of a merchant. The family moved to Cambridgeshire and then to Leicester, where Wickes trained as an architect before entering into partnership with William Flint. They were responsible for work to King’s Norton Church (1850) and the Corn Exchange (1850) in Leicester, before the partnership was dissolved in 1853. Wickes drew ‘Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches’ (published 1854-55) and wrote ‘Memorials of English Medieval Churches’ (1857) and ‘Villa Architecture’ (1859-62). However, by 1863 he was wanted for having fraudulently withdrawn some £1,800 using a forged cheque book. He served 15 years at Millbank Prison, Pimlico, and Parkhurst, on the Isle of Wight.
Alfred Newman was a pupil of the draughtsman and lithographer George Hawkins. He engraved architectural subjects after designs by architects, including George Edmund Street (1824-1881), William Eden Nesfield (1835-1888) and Charles Wickes (born 1828). Newman also produced the lithographs for ‘Reliques [sic] of Ancient English Architecture’ by J. Johnson, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and ‘Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture’ by W. E. Nesfield (1861-62).

Places

England, Somerset

Subjects

carriage, topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, smoke, boy, man, woman, street, pavement, house, church, church windows, door, chimney, tower

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

Charles Wickes (1828 - )
Alfred Newman ( - 1866)

Title

St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Somersetshire

Date

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from the Parker Gallery, March 1969

GAC number

8350