James Gandon was a publisher, printmaker (copper-plate engraver) and architect who worked in London and Dublin. He enrolled at William Shipley's Drawing Academy and spent two years there, acquiring the skills of a draughtsman. An associate of Joseph Farington, he regarded Wilson as a 'valuable friend'* and produced a number of prints after his work, notably five etchings for John Boydell's Twelve Original Views in Italy , published in 1776. They were E34 Baths of Dioclesian. E36 Banks of the Tiber, E37 Temple of Romulus and Remus, E40 Castle of Ischia and E41 Pompey's Bridge at Terni.
*T.J. Mulvany, The Life of James Gandon, Esq. 1846, facsimile reprint ed. M. Craig, 1969, p. 191.
