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Description: | Colour aquatint mounted on linen. This view was drawn from the rooftop of Albion Mills and over a quarter of the image is taken up by the grey slate roofs and chimneys of the mill. All 360 degrees of the panorama are included and it is made up of six individual printed plates assembled together. When the image was first created the building, which then housed sugar mills, was the highest structure between St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Although the original drawings on which the work is based are generally attributed to Robert Barker and are likely to have been made with his involvement, it was his son, Henry, who was sent onto the roof of Albion Mills to make the earliest studies for the work in the winter of 1790–91. Henry also produced the outline etching of the scene, which was later aquatinted by printmaker Frederick Birnie. Albion Mills burnt down shortly after the original drawing, on which this print is based, was completed. The drawing was exhibited in London in the same year, in a building at the back of Robert Barker’s residence at 28 Castle Street. | Subjects: | genre ship rowing boat horse street dome road house mill topography spire woman bridge (urban) lamp post chimney townscape/cityscape man hill church carriage cart sailboat smoke field horseback soldier tower prison bollard window handcart cathedral factory dog boy windmill | Temporal: | 1792 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Henry Aston Barker (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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