Thomas Sulman
Illustration — Thomas Sulman Thomas Sulman (c.1834 – 1900) was an English architectural draftsman. • Illustration — 1873 engraving of Views in Bristol by Thomas Sulman Sulman studied at The Working Men's College between 1854 and 1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; he was influenced by the positivist thinkers at the college. He became a specialist in using balloons to produce birds-eye views of cities including London, Oxford, Glasgow and New York City. These views, as hand-coloured engravings produced with the help of London engraver Robert Loudan Sr., were featured in The Illustrated London News from the 1860s, and were sometimes produced to a fold-out six foot length.
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Thomas Sulman
Thomas Sulman · The Illustrated London News · Public domain
- Born
- 1834.
- Died
- 1900.
- Occupation
- engraver.
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Illustration — Thomas Sulman Thomas Sulman (c.1834 – 1900) was an English architectural draftsman. • Illustration — 1873 engraving of Views in Bristol by Thomas Sulman Sulman studied at The Working Men's College between 1854 and 1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; he was influenced by the positivist thinkers at the college. He became a specialist in using balloons to produce birds-eye views of cities including London, Oxford, Glasgow and New York City. These views, as hand-coloured engravings produced with the help of London engraver Robert Loudan Sr., were featured in The Illustrated London News from the 1860s, and were sometimes produced to a fold-out six foot length.
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In 1891 he produced high-level views of major London thoroughfares for Herbert Fry's London: Illustrated by Twenty Bird's Eye Views of the Principal Streets engraved by George William Ruffle (1838–1901). Sulman drew and engraved images for newspaper and magazine advertisements, including one for Beethams Glycerine and Cucumber showing a young woman with toiletries. He illustrated for The Boy’s Own Annual in the 1880s.
The ruins of the 1882 fire that swept through the lower half of Kingston, Jamaica. The pictures are numbered, but they're numbered slightly oddly, so the following description also gives the location of each picture, as well as a little extra information for those not viewing at full size. Top row: Left (2), the view from the Royal Mail Steam-Ship Company's Wharf. Centre (1), Peter-lane, from Bar
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1834
Thomas Sulman born.
1863
A Peep into the Palatinate is dated 1863.
1864
The Legend of St. Gabriel's is dated 1864.
1900
Thomas Sulman died.
1901
Thomas Sulman (1901) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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- 1.Thomas Sulman: The Rossetti Archive - Mary in the House of St. John.
- 2.Thomas Sulman: The Rossetti Archive - Two Lovers Embracing.
- 3.Thomas Sulman: The Rossetti Archive - Jan Van Eyck's Studio.
- 4.J. F. C. Harrison ,A History of the Working Men's College (1854-1954), Routledge Kegan Paul, 1954
- 5.The Illustrated London News 1861: London from the South Side of the Thames.
- 6.London: Illustrated by Twenty Bird's Eye Views of the Principal Streets.
- 7.Anne Helmreich. Manchester University Press: The Art Dealer and Taste. 36.
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Thomas Sulman is recorded as engraver.
The Legend of St
Gabriel's
1864
A Peep into the Palatinate
1863
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