Proposed New Houses of Parliament, from the Design of Charles Barry Esq.

Location

Country: Turkey
City: Istanbul
Place: British Consulate-General

Landscape engraver and draughtsman Thomas Higham was born in Suffolk. After serving an apprenticeship with antiquary and engraver John Greig, his earliest published works were plates for James Storer’s ‘Antiquarian Itinerary’ (1815). Higham also both drew and engraved plates for the ‘Stationer’s Almanack’ from c.1826-39. In the late 1820s he began using steel plates and some of his earliest such works were for James Elmes’s ‘Metropolitan Improvements’ (1827-32). Among his most admired prints are those after the work of J. M. W. Turner. Higham exhibited at the Society of British Artists, London, in 1825, 1826 and 1830. He was an auditor of the Artist’s Annuity Fund. Higham was a widow by the time of his death in Islington at the age of c.49.

Places

England, River Thames, London, Palace of Westminster, Westminster

Subjects

topography, Gothic Revival, Victorian Genre, river, coat of arms, bridge (urban), government building, abbey, tower, barge/canal boat, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Thomas Higham (1796 - 1844)

Title

Proposed New Houses of Parliament, from the Design of Charles Barry Esq.

Date

1837

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, July 1961

GAC number

5570