James Malton

[2] He was employed as a draughtsman in the office of the architect James Gandon for nearly three years during the building of the Custom House (built between 1781 and 1791), but was eventually dismissed.

[5] The coloured prints from this work, which depict many of the new public buildings erected, capture the architectural changes which Dublin underwent in the 18th century.

They included 17 views of Dublin in Indian ink and watercolour, mostly depicting the same subjects as his published prints.

[5] In 1798, he published An Essay on British Cottage Architecture, described in its subtitle as "an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance".

[6] His later publications include a practical treatise on perspective called The Young Painter's Mahlstick (1800),[5] four aquatints after drawings by Francis Keenan, issued as A Select Collection of Views in the County of Devon (1800),[7] and A Collection of Designs for Rural Retreats as Villas Principally in the Gothic and Castle Styles of Architecture (1802).