Boston, Lincolnshire

Location

Country: USA
City: Boston
Place: British Consulate-General

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, Boston (England), Boston: St. Botolph's Church, Lincolnshire, River Witham

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, genre, river bank, coat of arms, road, fence, house, church, tower, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

John Buckler (1770 - 1851)
J, (engraver) Chapman

Title

Boston, Lincolnshire

Date

published May 1798

Medium

Colour aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1961

GAC number

5435