LINCOLN HOUSE, ENFIELD

Original 1800 4 1/8 inch x 6 5/8 inch Etching titled LINCOLN HOUSE, ENFIELD

View of the large house, in Enfield, north London; a lady walking by in neighbouring field.

Print by James Peller Malcolm (1767 – 1815). An American-English topographer and engraver. Son of a merchant in Philadelphia, he was born there in August 1767. He was admitted to the Quaker school; but his family left to avoid the fighting in American War of Independence, and his education was mostly at Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He returned with his family to Philadelphia in 1784, after the conclusion of peace. Acting on the advice of Mr. Bembridge, a relative and fellow-student of Benjamin West, he went to London, and pursued artistic studies for two years in the Royal Academy. Finding that history painting and landscape painting were not much in demand, he took to engraving and the compilation of books on topographical and historical subjects. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Many of his engravings are in the Gentleman’s Magazine, from 1792 to 1814. His Excursions through Kent and works in John Nichols’s History of Leicestershire, were long-term projects.

Published by James Peller Malcolm at 52 Chator St., Somers Town Middlesex.

Plate size 6 7/8 inch x 9 7/8 inch

The etching is in very good condition with minor age-related defects.