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6 unusual facts about Rudolph Ackermann


Ackermann's Repository

Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann.

Dick Christian

Christian also played a prominent, if comical role in the famous set of prints of the Quorn Hunt made by Rudolph Ackermann in 1835: "Who is that under his horse in the brook?" enquires that good sportsman & fine rider, Mr Green of Rolleston, whose noted old mare had just skimmed over the water like a swallow on a summer's evening.

Frederic Shoberl

From 1809 he began editing Rudolph Ackermann's '‘Repository of Arts’' which had just started and was only at its third edition.

Henry Thomas Alken

He created prints for the leading sporting printsellers such as S. and J. Fuller, Thomas McLean, and Rudolph Ackermann, and often collaborated with his friend the sporting journalist Charles James Apperley (1779–1843), also known as Nimrod.

José María Lanz

It was translated to English as Analytical essay of the construction of machines (1820, published by Rudolph Ackermann) and by Thomas Fenwick as Essays on practical mechanics (1822) and to German by Wilhelm Kreyher as Versuch über die Zusammensetzung der Maschinen (1829).

Rudolph Ackermann

Thomas Rowlandson and other distinguished artists were regular contributors.



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