Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Medland, Thomas
MEDLAND, THOMAS (d. 1833), engraver and draughtsman, resided in London for many years, practising both in the line manner and in aquatint; he excelled in landscape work, and was chiefly employed upon topographical plates. He engraved many of those in Farington's ‘Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland,’ 1789, and ‘Cities and Castles of England,’ 1791; Harding's ‘Shakspeare Illustrated,’ 1793; ‘The Copperplate Magazine;’ Sir G. Staunton's ‘Embassy of the Earl of Macartney to China,’ 1797; ‘Select Views in London and Westminster,’ 1800; and Sir W. Gell's ‘Topography of Troy,’ 1804. Medland's most successful work was a set of illustrations to ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ from designs by Stothard, 1790, and his largest plate was ‘Evening of the Glorious First of June,’ after R. Cleveley. Among his aquatints may be noticed the series of nineteen plates of Egyptian monuments in the British Museum, after W. Alexander, 1807, and those in Captain Gold's ‘Oriental Drawings,’ 1806. Medland also practised water-colour painting, and exhibited views of London at the Royal Academy in 1777 and 1779, and later many transcripts of English scenery. When Haileybury College was founded by the East India Company in 1806, Medland appears to have been appointed drawing-master there, and from that time resided in the neighbourhood of Hertford. He continued to send drawings to the Royal Academy up to 1822.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Universal Cat. of Books on Art.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.198
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 204 | i | 6 f.e. | Medland, Thomas: for (fl. 1777-1822) read (d. 1833) |
| ii | 28 | after 1822. insert He died at Hertford 30 Oct. 1833 (Gent. Mag. 1833, ii. 476). |