He illustrated numerous works during his lifetime and was landscape engraver to the Prince of Wales.
[2] Medland lived in London for many years, practising both line engraving and in aquatint.
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.
Among his aquatints were the series of nineteen plates of Egyptian monuments in the British Museum, after William Alexander (1807), and those in Charles Gold's Oriental Drawings (1806).
[3] Medland also practised water-colour painting, and exhibited views of London at the Royal Academy in 1777 and 1779, and later many English scenes.