Chris Beetles Gallery

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London

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£750

Signed

Signed in pencil

Medium

Etching with drypoint

Catalogue Raisonné No

Dimensions

5 x 5 inches

Literature

H C Dickins, manuscript, 'Chronological List of Etchings', 1920-1924, no 63;
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 88

Exhibited

‘Impressions of Cities by William Walcot’, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, London, 2008, no 23

Published by courtesy of the London County Council in 1920 in an edition of 250 (UK) and 50 (USA), with 15 artist's presentation proofs.

'An aerial view of the Thames from Westminster to the Tower, including the new London Count Hall (built as headquarters of the LCC and opened in 1922) IN THE RIGHT FOREGROUND,COURTESY OF WHOM THE PLATE WAS ISSUED. WALCOT LATER WORKED FOR THE LCC PLANING DEPARTMENT WHO PRAISED HIM IN A OBITUARY NOTICE IN 1943.' Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, 'William Walcot' online

Framed