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Rudolf Ackermann was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1764. Ackermann trained as a lithographer and in his twenties moved to England. In 1795 Ackermann opened a print shop in the Strand, London, where he sold prints, books, artist materials and exhibited paintings.

Ackermann was a talented lithographer and began publishing a series of attractive colour-plate books. This included The Microcosm of London, that was published in three volumes between 1808 and 1811. The text of the first two volumes was written by William Pyne and the third volume by William Combe. The Microcosm of London was illustrated with 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Artists who worked on the book included Pyne, Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin. Ackermann also published magazines such as The Repository of Arts and The Poetical Magazine (1809-1811). Rudolf Ackermann died in 1834.

 

 

 

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