Thomas Medland

Thomas Medland was an English engraver and draughtsman. He was drawing-master at Haileybury College and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He illustrated numerous works during his lifetime and was landscape engraver to the Prince of Wales.

Medland lived in London for many years, practising both line engraving and in aquatint. He was known for landscape work, and was mainly employed on topographical plates. When Haileybury College was founded by the East India Company in 1806, Medland was appointed drawing-master there, and from that time lived in the neighbourhood of Hertford. He died at Hertford 30 October 1833.

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