Tower of the Grey Friars

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Draughtsman and lithographer George Hawkins junior produced plates after his own designs and those by contemporary artists. Hawkins worked for the publisher Day and Son and specialised in topography and architectural subjects. Fellow lithographer Louis Haghe was a close friend and it was reported that when Haghe stopped engraving ‘Flemish groupings’ in ecclesiastical or medieval interiors, Hawkins was left unrivalled in the subject. He also produced lithographic views of cathedrals, ruined abbeys, churches, country estates and public buildings, including bridges and railway viaducts. Lithographer Alfred Newman was his pupil. Hawkins died following ‘a distressing and incurable malady’ in his 43rd year, at his home in Camden Town, London.

Places

England, Richmond Castle, Richmond (Yorkshire), Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, River Swale, Yorkshire Dales

Subjects

topography, tree, stone/rock, man, path, house, monastery, ruin, chimney, tower

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

George, Jnr Hawkins (1809 - 1852)

Title

Tower of the Grey Friars

Date

published January 1851

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Baynton-Williams, February 1977

GAC number

12871