Drawing Room, Speke Hall, Lancs

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Snaresbrook Crown Court

Joseph Nash was born at Great Marlow; the son of a clergyman. He was a pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin, with whom he travelled to Paris in 1829 to make drawings for ‘Paris and its Environs’ (1830). He also lithographed plates for Pugin's ‘Views Illustrative of Examples of Gothic Architecture’ (1830), ‘Architecture of the Middle Ages’ (1838) and ‘The Mansions of England in the Olden Times’ (1839-49). He exhibited from 1831 to 1879, chiefly at the British Institution, the Old Watercolour Society and the New Watercolour Society. His exhibits included architectural subjects and designs from Shakespeare, Scott and Cervantes. His most typical works are interiors of Tudor or Elizabethan mansions peopled with figures. He died at 69, in Kensington.

Places

England, Merseyside

Subjects

painting (as Subject), topography, cat, man, woman, girl, 16th century costume, armour, dress, hat, sword, country house/mansion, fireplace, window, domestic interior, chair, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

coloured lithograph

Artist

Joseph Nash (1808 - 1878)

Title

Drawing Room, Speke Hall, Lancs

Date

1849

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1973

Inscription

inside image: [left] J.N 1849

GAC number

10146