A Tower of Westminster Abbey

Thomas Malton junior was a teacher of perspective, draughtsman, etcher and aquatint engraver of views after his own designs and caricatures after Thomas Rowlandson. He was born in London, the son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton senior and the brother of James Malton, who also became a well known draughtsman and aquatint engraver. Malton junior worked in Dublin for three years for the architect John Gandon and later studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He also worked as a scene painter, as well as running evening drawing classes, at which Turner took lessons in perspective. From 1796 until 1804 he lived in Long Acre, off St. Martin’s Lane. He is best known for his careful drawings of London buildings.

Places

England, London, Westminster Abbey, Westminster

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, abbey, church, window, tower

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), pencil, watercolour (as object name), pencil drawing

Artist

Thomas, jnr Malton (1748 - 1804)

Title

A Tower of Westminster Abbey

Date

Medium

Pencil and watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 41.00 cm, width: 32.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Jeremy Maas Gallery, March 1967

Provenance

Collection of ‘Gardner’; collection of ‘C. Fry’; from whom purchased by J. S. Maas & Co. Ltd., London, on 19 January 1966; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in March 1967

GAC number

7545