An Oblique Perspective View of the East Front of Hampton Court

Location

Country: Ethiopia
City: Addis Ababa
Place: British Embassy

Anthony Highmore was a painter of portraits and topographical landscapes. He was born in London to the artist Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), who was one of the most important artists of the 18th century. Anthony was a pupil of his father and worked with him up to the mid 1750s. He retired from painting at the same time as his father in the early 1760s.
John Tinney (died 1761), publisher, engraver and printseller, was the son of a member of the Merchant Taylor’s Company. For seven years he was apprenticed to the engraver John Stuart. Tinney established his own print shop in Fleet Street from the 1730s, where he sold a range of items, including imported French prints, prints after his own works, maps and drawing books.

Places

England, Middlesex

Subjects

watering can, gardener, topography, flower, tree, boy, man, woman, 18th century costume, dress, tricorn hat, path, gate, topiary, formal garden, garden, lawn, palace, window

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Anthony Highmore (1718 - 1799)
John Tinney ( - 1761)

Title

An Oblique Perspective View of the East Front of Hampton Court

Date

published 17 December 1744

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, October 1970

GAC number

9018