Tower of London - Original antique etching. John Thomas Smith (1811)

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State: Normal (with signs of normal use)

Title: East Entrance to the cell in the South West Tower of the Tower of London. Artist and etcher: John Thomas Smith, also known as Antiquity Smith (British, 17661833). Drawn in 1802 and published in 1811. Illustration to Smith's 'Ancient Topography of London'. Size: 30,5x23 cms. Condition: fine.

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Tower of London - Original antique etching. John Thomas Smith (1811)
Title: East Entrance to the cell in the South West Tower of the Tower of London. Artist and etcher: John Thomas Smith, also known as Antiquity Smith (British, 17661833). Drawn in 1802 and published in 1811. Illustration to Smith's 'Ancient Topography of London'. Size: 30,5x23 cms. Condition: fine.

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John Thomas Smith was an English painter, engraver and antiquarian. He wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, that was noted for its "malicious candour". In 1796 the young John Constable was introduced to Smith, and he became Constable's informal artistic mentor. aSmith was offered the position of Keeper of the Prints department of the British Museum in September 1816.