The Upper Room of the Gibraltar Garrison Library

Location

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

Amateur artist J. M. Carter had a career in the army and rose to the position of Captain of the Royal Regiment. However, he also exhibited oil paintings at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists. When he exhibited at the Academy in 1842, he was probably serving overseas, because his work was sent ‘c/o Mr. F. Grant’ (Francis Grant, later President of the Royal Academy). Carter and Grant may have been friends; Carter had exhibited a view of Grant’s home in Regent’s-park’ (presumably a drawing) at the Academy in 1839. Carter was in Gibraltar by 1844 and two years later published his ‘Select Views of the Rock and Fortress of Gibraltar’, including 14 plates. By 1847, he was living in Monmouth, in Wales.

Places

Gibraltar, Spain

Subjects

bust (as Subject), painting (as Subject), reading (as Subject), topography, Victorian Genre, telescope, military uniform, soldier, library, window, bench, bookcase, settee, chair

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

J M Carter
Thomas Coleman Dibdin (1810 - 1893)

Title

The Upper Room of the Gibraltar Garrison Library

Date

published 1846

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, November 1956

GAC number

3646