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284: 358: 343: 303: 331: 270: 241: 215: 317: 227: 169:, a series of 25 prints originally published between 1792 and 1799. The plates were executed in etching and aquatint by Malton himself, after his own drawings. Each plate was accompanied by descriptive text with a dedication and a vignette in aquatint. Following the completion of the issue of the work in six parts, Malton republished the whole in a bound volume. The coloured prints from this work, which depict many of the new public buildings erected, capture the architectural changes which 372: 256: 176:
Between 1792 and 1803, Malton showed 51 drawings of architectural subjects at the Royal Academy. They included 17 views of Dublin in Indian ink and watercolour, mostly depicting the same subjects as his published prints. They were not, however, the original drawings from which the plates were made,
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Malton is first recorded as an artist in 1790, when he sent two drawings to the Society of Artists in London from an address in Dublin. He is best known for
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A Collection of Designs for Rural Retreats as Villas Principally in the Gothic and Castle Styles of Architecture
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Born in 1761, James Malton was the son of the English architectural draughtsman
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While most sources give Malton's date of birth as 1761, some (such as the
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often being larger, and with the scenes populated with different figures.
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A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin
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A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin
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Malton's Views of Dublin: The Story of a Georgian City
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Raftery, P. J. (September 1964). "Who Was Malton?".
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A Select Collection of Views in the County of Devon
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Index

Marylebone
United Kingdom
Engraver

Royal Exchange, Dublin
engraver
watercolourist
geometry
perspective
draughtsman
James Gandon
A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin
Thomas Malton the elder
Thomas Malton the younger
Custom House
A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin
Dublin
brain-fever
Trinity College Library
The Custom House
The Custom House
Four Courts and river Liffey
Four Courts
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle
Leinster House
Leinster House
View from Capel Street, looking over Essex Bridge
Capel Street
Essex Bridge

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