View of Dover Heights Etc. from under the Castle Cliffs

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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

England, Kent

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, smoke, beach, cliff, house, tiled roof, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803 - 1902)
Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850)

Title

View of Dover Heights Etc. from under the Castle Cliffs

Date

published 1825

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Baynton-Williams, February 1977

GAC number

12857