The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Ackermann, Rudolph
Ackermann, Rudolph
(
1764
–
1834
),
German
lithographer who settled in London and opened a print shop in the Strand in
1795
. He played a major role in establishing lithography as a fine art, and published many handsome coloured-plate books with lithographs, hand-coloured aquatints, etc., in association with Prout,
A.
C.
Pugin
,
Rowlandson
, and other artists. His publications include the Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, etc. (
1809
–
28
); The Microcosm of London (3 vols,
1808
–
11
), an antiquarian and topographical work by
W.
Combe
; and the gift-book annual Forget-Me-Not, of which the first issue appeared in
1825
. Combe's The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque first appeared as ‘The Schoolmaster's Tour’ in Ackermann's Poetical Magazine (
1809
–
11
).
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