James Peller Malcolm

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James Peller Malcolm (1767–1815) was an American-English topographer and engraver.

Life

Son of a merchant in

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.[1]

He died in Gee Street, Clarendon Square, London, on 5 April 1815, leaving his mother and wife unprovided for.[1]

Works

Many of his engravings are in the

Priory of St. Helen's, London, and two large plates of the inside of the Middle Temple Hall, and one external view, under the auspices of the society.[1]

Leathersellers' Hall, Bishopsgate, London, 1799 print.
Interior of St Bartholomew-the-Less, from Londinium Redivivum vol. 1, 1802.

Malcolm's major work was Londinium Redivivum, or an Antient History and Modern Description of London, compiled from Parochial Records, Archives of various Foundations, the Harleian MSS. and other authentic Sources (4 vols. London 1802–7). It was a parochial history compiled from original records, such as vestry-books, churchwardens' accounts, and parochial registers. The dean and chapter of St Paul's Cathedral gave him free access to their archives. The work is accompanied by forty-seven plates.[1]

Malcolm's other publications were:

  • Seventy-nine plates to illustrate Daniel Lysons's Environs of London (1797–1800).
  • Twenty Views within Twelve Miles of London (1800)'
  • Letters between the Rev. James Granger, M.A., and many of the most eminent Literary Men of his Time(1805).
  • First Impressions, or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (1807).
  • Excursions in the Counties of Kent, Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, and Somersetshire in 1802, 1803, and 1805; illustrated by Descriptive Sketches (1807; second edition 1814, with twenty-four plates).
  • Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements of the City of London during that Period; with a Review of the State of Society in 1807. To which is added a Sketch of the Domestic and Ecclesiastical Architecture, and of the various Improvements in the Metropolis, illustrated by fifty Engravings, (1808; another edition 1810).
  • Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700, illustrated by eighteen Engravings (1811).
  • Miscellaneous Anecdotes, illustrative of the Manners and History of Europe during the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William III, and Queen Anne (1811).
  • An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing, with graphic Illustrations (1813).[1]

Gallery

  • Dress in 1779, from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London vol. 2, 1810
    Dress in 1779, from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London vol. 2, 1810

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Cooper 1893.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1893). "Malcolm, James Peller". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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