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As one of the pioneers of modern publishing methods, Ackermann developed an international distribution network for his publications and came to have significant commercial interests in South America. The business he founded in London flourished throughout the 19th century under the management of his
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During the Napoleonic wars, Ackermann was an energetic supporter of the Allied cause and made significant contributions to British propaganda through his publication of anti-Napoleonic prints and military manuals. He became a naturalised British citizen in March 1809. After the
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in numerous projects to produce both individual prints as well as illustrations for books and magazines, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints.
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published by Rudolf Ackermann between 1823 and 1847. Hyperlinks allow the volumes to be examined by author, engraver, etc., and include references to other works submitted to similar 19th century literary
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He worked as a saddler and coach-builder in different German cities, moved from Dresden to Basel and Paris, and then, 23 years old, settled in London. He established himself in
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Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business bringing together wide variety of talented artists and printmakers including
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to make it. He was one of the first to illuminate his own premises with gas. Indeed, the introduction of lighting by gas owed much to him.
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Ford, Jill (Winter 1981). "Ackermann's History of Westminster Abbey: its publishing history and the unique copy in Westminster Abbey".
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Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
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and was then reissued as a bestselling separate book. Ackermann also published Rowlandson's masterpiece
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reproduces elements from the 1823–1830 volumes of the earliest British-published literary annual,
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King-Hele, Desmond (2002). "Erasmus Darwin's improved design for steering carriages––and cars".
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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documented the changing classicising fashions in dress and furniture of the Regency;
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An inventor and innovator, he was important as a carriage designer and patented the
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A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Kingdom of Great Britain
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Ackermann then moved to Little Russell Street where he published
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and other distinguished artists were regular contributors.
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A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne
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Picturesque Tour on the Seine, from Paris to the Sea
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In 1809 he applied his press to the illustration of
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Rudolf Ackermann

François-Nicolas Mouchet
fr
National Portrait Gallery
Stollberg
Electorate of Saxony
Finchley
lithographer
Stollberg
saddler

omnibus
Long Acre
Covent Garden
ceremonial coach
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
omnibus
Charing Cross
Greenwich
Woolwich
Strand
Somerset House
Royal Academy of Arts
Thomas Rowlandson
Isaac Cruikshank
Theodore Lane
Henry Singleton
Maria Cosway

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