Location

Country: Other
City: storage

This lithograph is from the publication ‘Lycia, Caria, Lydia, illustrated by Mr. George Scharf, Part One’, published in 1847. The descriptive letterpress was written by Charles Fellows. Scharf accompanied Fellows on his first expedition to Lycia on behalf of the British Museum. However, only the first part of a projected series of views made by Scharf was published. The views comprised: Xanthus (three views); Macry; Telmessus; Tlos; Myra; Almalee; and Patara.

Charles Joseph Hullmandel was born in London; the son of a German composer and musician. He trained as an artist in Paris, before travelling on the continent. In 1817 he met J. A. Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, in Munich and changed the course of his career. His earliest published lithographs were ‘Twenty-Four Views of Italy’ (1818) and soon after this project he set up a lithographic press at his home in Great Marlborough Street. From then he worked as a lithographic draughtsman and printer. Most major improvements to lithography in Britain of the 1820s and ‘30s are attributed to him and he became the finest lithographer and most prolific printer. In 1827 he married flower painter Valentine Bartholomew. He died in London aged 61.

Places

Turkey (as place name), Middle East

Subjects

topography, seascape/coastal scene, flower, tree, palm, camel, mountain, bay, moustache, man, turban, archaeological site, path, ruin, dome

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Sir George Scharf (1820 - 1895)
W L Walton
Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850)

Title

Macry with the Ancient Theatre of Telmessus

Date

published 1847

Medium

Colour lithograph

Dimensions

height: 44.50 cm, width: 62.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, January 1976

GAC number

12162