Thomas Medland (c.1765 – 1833) was an English engraver and draughtsman. He was drawing-master at

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and exhibited at the

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. He illustrated numerous works during his lifetime and was landscape engraver to

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Life

Medland lived in London for many years, practising both

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and in

aquatint Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. It has also been used h ...

. He was known for landscape work, and was mainly employed on topographical plates. When Haileybury College was founded by the

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in 1806, Medland was appointed drawing-master there, and from that time lived in the neighbourhood of

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. He died at Hertford 30 October 1833.

Works

Medland engraved plates for: *

Joseph Farington Joseph Farington (21 November 1747 – 30 December 1821) was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist. Life and work Born in Leigh, Lancashire, Farington was the second of seven sons of William Farington and Esther Gilbody. His ...

, ''Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland'' (1789), and ''Cities and Castles of England'' (1791) *

Silvester Harding Silvester Harding (also Sylvester) (25 July 1745 – 12 August 1809) was an English artist and publisher. Life Harding was born at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK, on 25 July 1745. Placed when a child with an uncle in London, at ...

, ''Shakspeare Illustrated'' (1793) * ''The Copperplate Magazine'' * Sir George Leonard Staunton, ''Embassy of the Earl of Macartney to China'' (1797) * ''Select Views in London and Westminster'' (1800) *

Sir William Gell Sir William Gell FRS (29 March 17774 February 1836) was a British classical archaeologist and illustrator. He published topographical illustrations of Troy and the surrounding area in 1804. He also published illustrations showing the results ...

, ''Topography of Troy'' (1804) Medland was successful with a set of illustrations to ''

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'' from designs by

Thomas Stothard Thomas Stothard (17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver. His son, Robert T. Stothard was a painter ( fl. 1810): he painted the proclamation outside York Minster of Queen Victoria's accession to the t ...

(1790). His largest plate was ''Evening of the Glorious First of June'', after

Robert Cleveley Robert Cleveley (1747, Deptford – 28 September 1809, Dover) was an English maritime painter. His father and twin brother (John Cleveley the Elder, c.1712–1777, and John Cleveley the Younger, 1747–1786) were also artists, with John the Y ...

. Among his aquatints were the series of nineteen plates of Egyptian monuments in the British Museum, after William Alexander (1807), and those in Charles Gold's ''Oriental Drawings'' (1806). Medland also practised water-colour painting, and exhibited views of London at the Royal Academy in 1777 and 1779, and later many English scenes. He continued to show drawings at the Royal Academy until 1822.

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Mineralogical Record
{{DEFAULTSORT:Medland, Thomas British draughtsmen English engravers 1755 births 1833 deaths