Nathaniel Whittock

Nathaniel Whittock (born 26 January 1791) was a Victorian topographical engraver, who published bird's-eye views, e.g. of York (1856), Oxford (1834), Melbourne, Australia (1854), Hull (1855), and London (1845, 1849, 1859).^[1] He was "a prolific writer of instruction books",^[2][3] on drawing and other subjects, such as The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide (1828), The Construction and Design of Shop Fronts (1840), and The complete book of trades, or the parents' guide and youths' instructor (1837). The full title of the first of these was:

The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide: containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood, Verd Antique, Dove, Sienna, Porphry, white-veined and other marbles, in oil or distemper colour; designs for decorating apartments, in accordance with the various styles of architecture; with directions for stencilling, and process for destroying damp in walls; also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it, and the method for joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows.^[4]

As the full title shows, the work was very comprehensive, and the preface "rails against trade secrecy" which the book was intended to dispel.^[5] The work has been described as "influential" and "important" and is often cited by modern scholars of interior decoration.^[6]

He was born to John and Sarah Whittock in the City of Westminster and was baptised on 6 March 1791 at St John's, Smith Square.^{[citation needed]} Little is known about him until 1824-1829 when he appears as "Teacher of Drawing and Perspective, and Lithographist to the University of Oxford", and worked for the university's Ashmolean Museum and scientific community.^[7] In 1830 and 1831 he was at 24 Garnault Place, Spa Fields, Islington, London and from 1848 to 1860 he worked at 34 Richard Street, Islington with his cousin Henry Hyde.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ "Bird’s-eye view". Oxford Art Online. http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T008965. Retrieved 16 May 2011. "Nathaniel Whittock (1791–1860) published lithographic bird’s-eye views of Oxford, London, Hull and York and of Melbourne, Australia" (subscription required) (not dates of prints), Sanders of Oxford^{[unreliable source?]}
2. ^ About faces: physiognomy in nineteenth-century Britain, Sharrona Pearl, p. 96
3. ^ Hugh Murray, Nathaniel Whittock's bird's-eye view of the City of York in the 1850s, Friends of York City Art Gallery, 1988
4. ^ The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide, by Nathaniel Whittock, online text
5. ^ Joanna Banham, Sally MacDonald, Julia Porter. Victorian interior style, 1995, Studio Editions, ISBN 1858912458, 9781858912455
6. ^ It is described as "influential" in both: Parissien, Steven. Interiors: The Home Since 1700, p. 140 (quoted) - 141, 2008, Laurence King Publishing, and Encyclopedia of interior design: M-Z., Volume 2, Editors Joanna Banham, Leanda Shrimpton, Fitzroy Dearborn, p. 785, 1997, ISBN 1884964192, 9781884964190. "Important":Painted wood: history and conservation, p. 245, 1998, Symposium Proceedings, Getty Conservatiomn Institute, Eds, Valérie Dorge, F. Carey Howlett, ISBN 0892365013, 9780892365012
7. ^ The Ashmolean, Issues 15-27, Ashmolean Museum, 1989

External links

Images of engravings, etc.

• Oxford images
• Further engravings including Sebastopol
• Whittock's picture of Robin Hood's Bay

List of publications

• List from British Library
• Further list

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