Regency England Landmarks - from Ackermann's Repository

One of the constants to be expected in the pages of Ackermann's Repository was the hand colored plates of well known places in and around London; including buildings, parks and streets.  Ackermann's Repository had a subscription base that reached into the remote areas of the British Empire and foreign shores so they wanted to keep their readers appraised as to the look and goings on in that capital city.

I find these images to be an amazing snapshot of the true look of what 

Regency England was like and hope you enjoy seeing them too.

The London Museum at Piccadilly aka Bullock's Museum

Each of these hand-colored print would be accompanied by an article about the building shown; 

therefore educating the public a bit about the numerous landmarks in and around London.

This was the accompanying article in Ackermann's Repository

Here is a look at some of the Popular Landmarks and Places of the day.

1810 - The India House on Leadenhall St

1811 - Ironmonger Hall

 1811 - Lansdown House Berkley Sq

1811 - Bullion Yard - Bank of England

1811 - Carlton House

1811 - Russell Institution

1811 - Warwick House

1812 - St James Palace

1812 - The Monument

1812 - The New - Drury Lane Theater

1812 - Royal Exchange

1813 - London Commercial Sale Rooms

1813 - The British Museum.

1814 - The Old Bailey

1814 - The Pantheon

1814 - Buckingham Stairs Water Gate

1814 - London Bridge

1814 - St James Park - Bridge & Pagoda

1814 - Temple of Concord & Pagoda

1815 - St Luke's Hospital

1815 - Town Hall - Southwark

1815 - Blackfriers Bridge

1815 - Bullock's Museum

1815 Mercer's Hall

1816 Banqueting House - Whitehall

1816 New Custom House

1817 Vauxhall Bridge

1817 Westminster Penitentiary

1817 New Bethlem Hospital

1819 Royal Waterloo Bath

1822 Itallian Opera House - London

1827 Ackermann's Repository Building

1828 St Catherine's Hospital - Regents Park

Join me again next time for a few glimpses into  some of the Landmark interiors.

Thanks for visiting me here at EKDuncan.blogspot.com

If you have enjoyed seeing these images from Ackermann's Repository 

and would like the opportunity to see and read an original for yourself 

they are are available on line at www.archive.org

Click HERE then choose the volume you are interested in.

You can then see and read them online or download 

them to your computer for future reference.

Enjoy!

Gardens and Landscapes from Ackermann's Repository

My previous post was for a series of digital scrapbooking background papers I created using various

garden and landscape scenes I found in Ackermann's Repository; so I decided my next  

Ackermann's series would showcase many of the wonderful landscape and architectural 

scenes that were printed between 1809 and 1828.

Every issue of Ackermann's Repository included a large number of hand colored plates to accompany the articles found within it's pages.  There were regular features that could be expected in every issues such as the fashion and furniture plates; and then there were a variety of other series such as gardens or popular London streets that would grace the pages for a certain number of years, till another series was thought of to replace it.  Some of my favorites were the hand-colored garden plates, that were really about architectural elements for the garden area. I've even included an actual Ackermann's article for one of the fountains at the end of the post for the grins and giggles of it.

Enjoy!

A Pretty Garden view as shown in an 1820 issue of Ackermann's Repository

 Ackermann's Repository had a Garden theme running from 1819 - 1821

and these are the colored plates they included in those issues.

(the first one is actually from an earlier 1816 issue)

Gardens and garden designs were a popular interest in the Regency period so I'm sure many an Ackermann's reader enjoyed following their "Hints on Ornamental Gardening" series .

Here is an example of a description included for these plates.

Description of the Dolphin Fountain

Here is the Ackermann's article for the Dolphin Fountain.

This show it is a continuation of the "Garden" series and it references a

previous months issue for those who wanted to keep up with the series.

I think it's fun just to see what was considered fashionable for the garden during

the Regency period; however I also enjoy using images like these for digital art projects.

Either way I hope you find them as interesting as I do.

Please  - Join me again next time for more antique art prints from Ackermann's Repository.

Thanks for visiting me here at EKDuncan.blogspot.com

If you have enjoyed seeing these images from Ackermann's Repository 

and would like the opportunity to see and read an original for yourself 

they are are available on line at www.archive.org

Click HERE then choose the volume you are interested in.

You can then see and read them online or download 

them to your computer for future reference.

Enjoy!

Regency Era Scrapbooking Backgrounds - Ackermann's Repository

I was playing around with more images from Ackermann's Repository and fell in love with a series of hand-colored plates of landscape scenes from the 1820's.  I thought these images would make great background papers for digital scrapbooking so I played around with a few settings in Photoshop and then added in a funky texture I created, to give them a whole new look.

Ackermann's Repository always included a variety of Landscape, Architecture, or scenic image in every issue.  They usually were part of a themed series like The Churches of London or Country Seats.
The images I used were from the 1820's and were part of the garden and country seat series.

EKD digital scrapbooking backgrounds made with Ackermann's Repository images

I chose to create a series of 8 backgrounds that would worked together well. These garden and pastoral landscapes had similar colors and tones so I made a few lighting adjustments, added an EKDuncan texture from my batch of favorites and came up with this set of pages.

I liked them so much that I even loaded them over on me EveyD account over at deviantart.com

Here are the individual background pages I created

1819 Aviary in Garden scene from Ackermann's Repository

1819 Garden scene from Ackermann's Repository

1820 Garden Fountain from Ackermann's Repository

1820 Garden Seat scene from Ackermann's Repository

1820 Rustic Garden Bridge over water from Ackermann's Repository

1821 Formal Garden Bridge over water from Ackermann's Repository

1821 Picturesque Dairy scene from Ackermann's Repository

1822 Castle on the River scene from Ackermann's Repository

1823 Ditton - Country seat of Lord Montague from Ackermann's Repository

1823 The Hermitage on the Frogmore Estate from Ackermann's Repository

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Here is what the original image for the above Hermitage looked like

This is the original image from Ackermann's Repository

I started with the original image above; cropped it and altered it to give it a softer watercolor effect. This made a nice background but not quite what I was looking for...

This is what the background looked like before the crackle effect was added

so I then added a crackle texture for some added interest.

The final EKDuncan altered background page of the Ackermann's 1823 Hermitage scene

I followed the same basic steps for all the images so they would work together as a series
of antique looking background papers and am quite pleased with the final effect.

I enjoy using these nearly 200 year old images in my modern digital art.
There is just so much fun that can be had with them and I don't think I'll ever tire of using them.

 I hope this has inspired you to play and give new life to old images too.

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 I'll be posting a large selection of scenic elements like those used to create these
backgrounds so keep checking back to see what all the goodies I have to share.

till next time...