About: R. J. Hamerton (c.1810-1904)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

He began teaching drawing in a County Longford school at the age of 14, later moving to London, where he was employed by Charles Hullmandel, considered the father of lithographic art in England. Although his cartoons and book illustrations were engraved on wood, and he also painted in oils and watercolour, he spent most of his career as a lithographer, until 1891, "when the drawing on the huge stones became too much for my old back." He died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1904, aged 94.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • R. J. Hamerton (c.1810-1904)
rdfs:comment
  • He began teaching drawing in a County Longford school at the age of 14, later moving to London, where he was employed by Charles Hullmandel, considered the father of lithographic art in England. Although his cartoons and book illustrations were engraved on wood, and he also painted in oils and watercolour, he spent most of his career as a lithographer, until 1891, "when the drawing on the huge stones became too much for my old back." He died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1904, aged 94.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • He began teaching drawing in a County Longford school at the age of 14, later moving to London, where he was employed by Charles Hullmandel, considered the father of lithographic art in England. Although his cartoons and book illustrations were engraved on wood, and he also painted in oils and watercolour, he spent most of his career as a lithographer, until 1891, "when the drawing on the huge stones became too much for my old back." He died in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1904, aged 94.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software