Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Tyne

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£950

Signed

Signed

Medium

Etching and drypoint

Catalogue Raisonné No

100

Dimensions

6 x 7 ¼ inches

Literature

H C Dickins, manuscript, 'Chronological List of Etchings', 1920-1924, no 73;
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 100

Exhibited

'William Walcot 1874-1943, Centenary Exhibition', Fine Art Society, London, 1974, no 106;
‘Impressions of Cities by William Walcot’, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, London, 2008, no 18;
'William Walcot: Artist & Architect', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, October 2018, no 40

Published by H C Dickins in 1922 in an edition of 425 and priced at 40 Guineas for the set. 'The Arteries of Great Britain' was a set of five etchings celebrating the major river of Britain: The Thames, The Tyne, The Forth, The Clyde and The Mersey.
The etching shows the river Tyne looking down from the high level bridge down onto the open swing bridge.