Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 – 1828) after William Henry Pyne (1769 – 1843
Kitchen of Trinity College, Cambridge (1815)

Aquatint with original hand colouring
27 x 21 cm

Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 – 1834).

The kitchen of Trinity College at the beginning of the nineteenth century, complete with scullery maids, dogs, and turning spits.

Joseph Constantine Stadler was a prolific German émigré engraver of images after his contemporaries – here, 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist Joseph Farington. Stadler’s engravings are wide-ranging in subject matter and include landscapes, seascapes and portraits, as well as military, sporting and decorative subjects. Stadler was employed by the leading print publisher of the time, John Boydell. Stadler lived in Knightsbridge when he died at the age of 73.

William Henry Pyne was an English writer, illustrator, and painter, who also wrote under the name of Ephraim Hardcastle. He trained at the drawing academy of Henry Pars in London and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790.

Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words “four doors nearer to Somerset House”, the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints.

Condition:Generally very good; slight toning to within platemark.

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