Chris Beetles Gallery

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Battery Park, New York

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£850

Signed

Signed

Medium

Etching with drypoint and aquatint

Catalogue Raisonné No

Dimensions

5 ½ x 5 ¾ inches

Literature

H C Dickins, manuscript, 'Chronological List of Etchings', 1920-1924, no 84;
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 111

Exhibited

'Original Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints by Younger Contemporary Gravers', Beaux Arts Gallery, London, April-May 1929;
'William Walcot: Artist & Architect', Chris Beetles Gallery, October 2018, no 48

Published by H C Dickins in 1923 in an edition of 24 (UK) and 350 (US) and originally priced at 6 Guineas. From the New York 'set' of five etchings: Forty-second Street New York, Battery Park New York, Park Avenue, Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Broadway - Downtown New York. Another New York etching was published by H C Dickins in 1924 and is possibly part of the same set: Downtown Manhatten from the East River with the Woolworth building, New York.