Chris Beetles Gallery

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Charing Cross – The Statue of Charles I

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£650

Signed

Signed
Inscribed with title below mount

Medium

Etching and drypoint

Catalogue Raisonné No

Dimensions

3 ½ x 5 inches

Literature

Sir Reginald Blomfield (Intro), Architectural Water-Colours and Etchings of W Walcot, London: H C Dickins & Technical Journals, 1919, page 27
H C Dickins, 'Chronological List of Etchings', as it appears in Blomfield, 1919, no 56;
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 79

Exhibited

'Rare Original Etchings by Bone, Brangwyn, Cameron, Strang, Walcot, Whistler, Zorn Etc', The Fine Art Society, London, May 1923, as 'Charing Cross';
'Paintings, Water-Colours and Etchings by William Walcot', The Fine Art Society, London, June 1924, as 'Charing Cross';
'Etchings by Leading Artists', Fine Art Society, London, December 1927, as 'Charing Cross';
'Original Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints by Younger Contemporary Gravers', Beaux Arts Gallery, London, April-May 1929, as 'Charles I Statue, Charing Cross';
'William Walcot 1874-1943, Centenary Exhibition', Fine Art Society, London, 1974, no 93;
‘Impressions of Cities by William Walcot’, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, London, 2008, no 31;
'William Walcot: Artist & Architect', Chris Beetles Gallery, October 2018, no 32

Published by H C Dickins in 1919 in an edition of 175 (UK) and 75 (USA). Originally priced at 4 guineas.

'Hubert le Sueur’s bronze equestrian statue of Charles I though cast in 1633 was not erected immediately and in the Civil War the Parliamentarians sold it for scrap in 1649 to the brazier John Rivett. He made a fortune selling cutlery supposedly made from the melted bronze. However he actually buried it in his garden and at the Restoration gave or sold it back to Charles II. It was moved to its present site [that of the original Charing (Eleanor) Cross] in 1765-67. The pedestal is said to have been designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons.' Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, 'William Walcot' online.
Mounted

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