Location

Country: USA
City: Washington DC
Place: British Embassy

London-born engraver James Fittler exhibited two sketches at the Free Society of Artists, aged 17. He studied engraving at the Royal Academy Schools from 21 and exhibited there between 1788 and 1824, becoming an associate in 1800. He was later appointed marine engraver to George III. He contributed to Boydell’s ‘Shakespeare Gallery’ and co-published ‘Views of Weymouth’ (1790-91) and (with Robert Bowyer) an illustrated bible (1795), losing some £1500 in the later venture. He published engravings for John Claude Nattes's ‘Scotia Depicta’ (1804) and made reproductions of Raphael's ‘Cartoons’ (1810). His last published works illustrated Thomas Frognall Dibdin's ‘Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp’ (1822). He died aged 77.

Places

England, Windsor Castle, Berkshire

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, branch, tree, horse, hill, man, woman, flag, castle

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

George Robertson (1742 - 1788)
James Fittler (1758 - 1835)

Title

North West View of Windsor Castle

Date

published 2 September 1782

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, August 1960

GAC number

5313