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Last Name Malton

Given Name Thomas I

alt. Names T. M. ; Thomas Malton the Elder ;

Marriage

Children architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton the younger (1748-1804): http://viaf.org/viaf/23343226; James (d. 1803), architectural draughtsman & author

Year born 1726 in London

Year died 1801

Place of death Dublin, Ireland

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education apprenticed originally as upholsterer & kept an upholsterer's shop in the Strand; gave lectures on perspective at his house in Poland Street, Soho

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for A royal road to geometry (1774) ; A Complete Treatise on Perspective (1779) ; App. or 2nd part to the complete treatise on perspective ; A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster ;

Patronage took part in exhibitions of the Free Society of Artists in 1761 & Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766 &' 68; Royal Academy; Victoria & Albert Mus.

Collaborators ->Thomas Malton II (son) ;

Techniques geometrical, perspectival, architectural, and topographical copperplate engraving ; also 3D pop-up plates ;

Sample(s) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malton,_the_elder#/media/File:Thomas_Malton_the_Elder%27s_book_titled_Treatise_on_Perspective_published_in_Great__Britain

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malton,_the_elder ; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Malton,_Thomas_%281726-1801%29_%28DNB00%29 ;

Published sources Lionel Henry Cust in DNB 36 1893 ;

other English cabinetmaker, engraver & draftsman, born in London; moved to Dublin, Ireland, owing to pecuniary embarrassment.

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