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Rudolph AckermannDoctors of Divinity, University of Cambridge 19th century engraving by John Agar1815
1815
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John Samuel Agar (1773 - 1858) after John Uwins (1782 - 1857)
Doctors in Divinity, Esquire Beadle, and Yeoman Beadle (1815)
Hand-coloured aquatint
25 x 30 cm
Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834).
An engraving of two Doctors in Divinity and two beadles (administrative assistants to the Chancellor and Proctors of the University) from Ackermann's 'A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings'. The four figures walk forward with ceremonial accoutrements, likely to a graduation ceremony.
Thomas Uwins RA RWS was a British painter in watercolour and oil, and a book illustrator. He became a full member of the Old Watercolour Society and a Royal Academician, and held a number of high-profile art appointments including the librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria and the Keeper of the National Gallery. In the late 1790s he began producing work for Ackermann's collections.
John Samuel Agar was an English portrait painter and engraver, who exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1806 and at the British Institution until 1811. He was at one time president of the Society of Engravers. Rudolph Ackermann published many of his engravings.
Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. He attended the Latin school in Stollberg, but his wish to study at the university was made impossible by lack of financial means, and he therefore became a saddler like his father.
He worked as a saddler and coach-builder in different German cities, moved from Dresden to Basel and Paris, and then, 23 years old, settled in London. He established himself in Long Acre, the centre of coach-making in London and close to the market at Covent Garden.
Ackermann then moved to Little Russell Street where he published Imitations of Drawings of Fashionable Carriages (1791) to promote his coach-making. Other publications followed. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school at 96 Strand. Here Ackermann set up a lithographic press and began a trade in prints. He later began to manufacture colours and thick carton paper for landscape and miniature painters. Within three years the premises had become too small and he moved to 101 Strand, in his own words "four doors nearer to Somerset House", the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Between 1797 and 1800 Ackermann rapidly developed his print and book publishing business, encompassing many different genres including topography, caricature, portraits, transparencies and decorative prints.
During the Napoleonic wars, Ackermann was an energetic supporter of the Allied cause and made significant contributions to British propaganda through his publication of anti-Napoleonic prints and military manuals. He became a naturalised British citizen in March 1809.
As one of the pioneers of modern publishing methods, Ackermann developed an international distribution network for his publications and came to have significant commercial interests in South America. The business he founded in London flourished throughout the 19th century under the management of his descendants. He was buried at St. Clement Danes in the Strand, London.
In 2020, the St. Louis Mercantile Library wrote that:
"Ackermann excelled in the creation of landscape and architectural engravings. He created beautiful illustrations of the city of London, his adopted home, as well as two volumes of classic views of Westminster Abbey, along with exquisite views of river scenes. One of our favorite collections are four massive volumes of lovingly illustrated exterior and interior landmarks of Oxford and Cambridge Universities created just over two hundred years ago. These publications show Ackermann’s hand at every turn of the page along with the team of assistant designers and engravers he employed to create these works. Perhaps they were a way by which the artist could lay to rest his own regret at not being able to attend [an Oxbridge] college himself in a fondly depicted idyll to learning which these prints so aptly represent."
- Creator:Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834)
- Creation Year:1815
- Dimensions:Height: 9.85 in (25 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:Good. Slight age toning.
- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU795311496262
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