Wycombe Abbey

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Buckler was born on the Isle of Wight. In 1785 he became a steward of Magdalen College, Oxford. For seven years he was also apprenticed to architect and surveyor Charles Thomas Cracklow. In about 1801 he became Bailiff and Collector of Rents for Magdalen College in Freemason’s Court and Southwark. His post with Magdalen allowed him spare time, which he spent working on his own architectural perspective drawings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1849. In 1799, Buckler published an engraving of one of his drawings of Lincoln Cathedral. For the next five years he made a series of views of English cathedrals and churches. By the end of his career, he had produced some 13,000 architectural perspective drawings.

Places

England, High Wycombe: Wycombe Abbey, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, landscape C19th, tree, man, woman, path, school, house, abbey

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

John Buckler (1770 - 1851)

Title

Wycombe Abbey

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 30.50 cm, width: 44.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnew's, March 1956

Inscription

Insb

GAC number

3441