Chris Beetles Gallery

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Piccadilly Circus – Rebuilding Swan and Edgars

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£1,250

Signed

Signed in pencil
Inscribed 'The Circus 1925-26' below mount

Medium

Etching and drypoint

Catalogue Raisonné No

95/137

Dimensions

4 ½ x 8 inches

Literature

Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 95/137

Exhibited

'Modern Etchings', Beaux Art Gallery, October 1926, as 'Piccadilly in Transition';
‘William Walcot 1974-1943, Magical Impressions’, The Building Centre with Gallery Lingard, London, 1990, no 71;
‘Impressions of Cities by William Walcot’, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, London, 2008, no 37;
'William Walcot: Artist & Architect', October 2018, no 33

Published in 1920/26. Swan and Edgar was a smart and popular department store, built to a design by the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1910. It was hit during a zepplin raid in 1917 and was rebuilt in 1919 to designs by Louis Blanc and John Joass. After several owners including Harrods and Debenhams it closed in 1982.
This could also be the same etching as 'Piccadilly in Transition' 1926 [cr 137].
Mounted

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