Gateway of the Bloody Tower

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth; the son of a builder. He studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton jnr, before entering the Royal Academy Schools. Nash was employed by architects and drew plates for John Britton’s ‘Architectural Antiquities’ (1807) and Britton and E. W. Brayley’s ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’ (1801-09). From 1807 he worked as architectural draughtsman and lithographer to the Society of Antiquaries. In 1810, he became a member of Society of Painters in Watercolours. He also painted in oils. Nash made sketching trips to Calais, Caen, the Lake District, the Moselle and the Rhine. In 1834 he moved to Brighton. He turned to landscape painting, particularly views of Sussex, before his death in Brighton, aged 73.

Places

England, London, City of London

Subjects

topography, man, woman, parasol, soldier, gate, prison, portcullis, cobbles, tower

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856)

Title

Gateway of the Bloody Tower

Date

6 March 1821

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, July 1965

GAC number

7124