General Eliott on the King’s Bastion, Gibraltar, 13 September 1782

Location

Country: Gibraltar
City: Gibraltar
Place: Governor's Residence, The Convent

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.

People

George Augustus, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar Eliott (1717 - 1790)

Places

Gibraltar, Spain

Subjects

topography, telescope, smoke, 18th century costume, military uniform, Governor of Gibraltar, cannon, general, fortification

Materials & Techniques

etching, aquatint

Artist

George Frederick Koehler ( - 1800)
Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

General Eliott on the King’s Bastion, Gibraltar, 13 September 1782

Date

24 December 1788

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Acquisition

Convent, Gibraltar (Governor's Residence) collection.

Provenance

Presented to the Convent, Gibraltar, by General F.W.Forestier-Walker GCMG 1909

GAC number

17905