The Royal Exchange

Location

Country: Senegal
City: Dakar
Place: British Embassy

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

England, London, City of London, Royal Exchange (as place name)

Subjects

wheelbarrow, wagon, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, horn (as subject: animal parts), dog, horse, man, woman, 18th century costume, dress, vendor, basket, shop-front, street, Royal Exchange (as subject), cathedral, dome, tower

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

The Royal Exchange

Date

published 1781

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Dimensions

height: 38.00 cm, width: 51.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, May 1958

GAC number

4639