Piazza, Covent Garden

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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, Covent Garden

Subjects

carriage, topography, townscape/cityscape, dog, sunlight, man, woman, 18th century costume, dress, public square, piazza, bollard, arcade, window

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

Piazza, Covent Garden

Date

15 March 1796

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Dimensions

height: 30 cm; width: 37.8 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, November 1950

GAC number

1209