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James Malton (London 1761-1803 Dublin)
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
signed 'James Malton del-' (lower left on the original mount)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
538 x 734 in. (13.6 x 19.7 cm.)

Provenance
Iolo Williams.
with Michael Spratt, Guildford, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
J.R. Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860, London, 1952, p. 314, under no. 473 as 'Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin'.
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James Malton moved with his family to Dublin in 1785, where his father, Thomas Malton (1726-1801), an architectural draftsman, taught perspective. James worked for several years in the office of the distinguished architect James Gandon (1742–1823), before returning to London in 1790, where he exhibited topographical and architectural drawings at the Royal Academy. Malton published two sets of views of Dublin engraved by himself – the first, A Descriptive View of Dublin, in 1797. The second was published posthumously in circa 1818 and included both drawings from the first edition, and later ones.
Another watercolour by Malton of St Patrick's Cathedral, dated to circa 1797, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (172-1890).

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