Furnival’s Inn, Holborn

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

Landscape engraver and draughtsman Thomas Higham was born in Suffolk. After serving an apprenticeship with antiquary and engraver John Greig, his earliest published works were plates for James Storer’s ‘Antiquarian Itinerary’ (1815). Higham also both drew and engraved plates for the ‘Stationer’s Almanack’ from c.1826-39. In the late 1820s he began using steel plates and some of his earliest such works were for James Elmes’s ‘Metropolitan Improvements’ (1827-32). Among his most admired prints are those after the work of J. M. W. Turner. Higham exhibited at the Society of British Artists, London, in 1825, 1826 and 1830. He was an auditor of the Artist’s Annuity Fund. Higham was a widow by the time of his death in Islington at the age of c.49.

Places

England, London

Subjects

carriage, horseback, topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, man, woman, girl, pavement, Inn of Court, window, chimney

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

I Jones
Thomas Higham (1796 - 1844)

Title

Furnival’s Inn, Holborn

Date

1 April 1817

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Presented by Dr. Peter Rusk, November 1971

Provenance

In one frame with: 9484, 9485, 9486

GAC number

9483