The Clarendon Printing House

Method Aquatint
Artist Thomas Malton
Published Published DEcr. 31, 1802 by T. Malton.
Dimensions Image 214 x 305 mm, Sheet 241 x 305 mm
Notes An uncommon street scene looking down Broad Street, featuring The Clarendon Printing House, Sheldonian Theatre and the Old Ashmolean Museum, now the Museum of the History of Science.

Malton's Views of Oxford was never completed as Malton died in 1804 just after he published six of the engravings for the fourth part of the work. Six plates had already been engraved in etched state in preparation for the next part and these unfinished plates appeared together with the 24 aquatints when the entire work was reprinted in 1810.

Thomas Malton (1748 – 1804) was the son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton the Elder (1726-1801). Like his brother James Malton (d. 1803), Thomas worked in the office of the celebrated Irish architect James Gandon (1743-1823). Malton exhibited at the Royal Academy chiefly architectural views of great accuracy of execution. He published in 1774 A Royal Road to Geometry and, in 1792, A Picturesque Tour through...London and Westminster. He also ran a drawing-school where he taught perspective drawing to J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and Thomas Girtin 1775-1802).

Condition: Trimmed to the image top and sides and through the bottom of the inscription. Laid to an album page.
Framing unmounted
Price £100.00
Stock ID 51887

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