Rio de Janeiro

Location

Country: Brazil
City: Brasilia
Place: British Embassy

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.
W. L. Walton was a lithographer of landscapes, topographical views, military and transport subjects after works by contemporary artists. He worked for the firm of lithographic printers Day & Son in London.

Places

South America, Brazil

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, tree, palm, mountain, hill, valley, man, woman, path, house

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Robert Elwes (1819 - 1878)
Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850)
W L Walton

Title

Rio de Janeiro

Date

published 1854

Medium

Colour lithograph

Dimensions

height: 15.10 cm, width: 23.60 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Grosvenor Prints, London, October 2004

Provenance

With Grosvenor Prints, London; from whom purchased by the Government Art Collection in October 2004

GAC number

17887