Inscriptions in the Prison Room of the White Tower

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth; the son of a builder. He studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton jnr, before entering the Royal Academy Schools. Nash was employed by architects and drew plates for John Britton’s ‘Architectural Antiquities’ (1807) and Britton and E. W. Brayley’s ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’ (1801-09). From 1807 he worked as architectural draughtsman and lithographer to the Society of Antiquaries. In 1810, he became a member of Society of Painters in Watercolours. He also painted in oils. Nash made sketching trips to Calais, Caen, the Lake District, the Moselle and the Rhine. In 1834 he moved to Brighton. He turned to landscape painting, particularly views of Sussex, before his death in Brighton, aged 73.

Places

England, London, Tower of London

Subjects

topography, calligraphy/illumination, illustration/graphic, prison, tower, state interior

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856)

Title

Inscriptions in the Prison Room of the White Tower

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 26.50 cm, width: 37.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, November 1974

Inscription

sbl&insbc

GAC number

11696