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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: John Boydell, London - Blackfriars Bridge, 1795

John Boydell

London - Blackfriars Bridge, 1795
An original antique colour aquatint
8 ½ x 13 in
22 x 33 cm
LDNp10096
£ 550.00
John Boydell, London - Blackfriars Bridge, 1795
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Blackfriars Bridge: From Somerset Place with St. Paul's Cathedral in background. Originally named William Pitt Bridge, it is known by the nearby site of Blackfriars Monastery. After Joseph Farington. John...
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Blackfriars Bridge: From Somerset Place with St. Paul's Cathedral in background. Originally named William Pitt Bridge, it is known by the nearby site of Blackfriars Monastery. After Joseph Farington.

John Boydell was, perhaps, the greatest ‘patron-publisher’ of his day. Commissioning work from the famous artists of his time, promoting lesser-known artists, and upholding high standards of engraving against the tide of commercialism, he was able to produce works whose quality sets them apart from the bulk of eighteenth century reproductive engraving.
Amongst the fine colour-plate books which Boydell conceived and published with his nephew Josiah, was the History of the River Thames. One of his greatest successes with seventy-six plates by the renowned aquatint engraver Joseph Sadler after landscapes by Joseph Farington, RA. Although Farington worked as a successful painter it is for these careful topographical drawings that he is best remembered. Boydell’s Thames takes us on a journey from Thames Head in Gloucestershire through Berkshire and Oxfordshire, and eventually reaching London where pastoral scenes give way to growing industry and trade as the river widens out and reaches the North Sea.

For some time Boydell himself rode the tide of a flourishing export trade in British prints, and in 1790 his publishing success was complemented by his appointment as Lord Mayor of London. However, within a few years the troubles in France destroyed the export market and his business collapsed; Boydell fought to clear his debts and succeeded in doing so before he died.

For several decades he had been the greatest patron of his age, bringing employment and wealth to countless painters, and leaving a legacy of some of the finest topographical and historical engravings of the eighteenth century of which The Thames is one of the best examples.
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