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Fleet Street

William Walcot (1874-1943)


Price
£850

Signed
Signed in pencil

Medium
Etching

Catalogue Raisonné No
163

Dimensions
6 ½ x 8 ¾ inches

Literature
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 163

Exhibited
‘Impressions of Cities by William Walcot’, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, London, 2008, no 26

Commissioned by Francis H Crittall JP, of the Crittall Manufacturing Company Ltd, for a Christmas card in 1931.

'Depicting the former offices of the Daily Mail and the Daily Express. Walcot shows the ‘new’ Daily Express building, 121-128 Fleet Street, under construction. Designed in 1931 by Ellis & Clarke in association with Sir Owen Williams, it was the first curtain-wall building put up in London.' Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, 'William Walcot' online

Mounted


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