Chris Beetles Gallery

The Clyde

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£850

Signed

Signed

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Catalogue Raisonné No

102

Dimensions

4 x 10 ½ inches

Literature

H C Dickins, manuscript, 'Chronological List of Etchings', 1920-1924, no 75;
Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, William Walcot Catalogue Raisonné, online, no 102

Exhibited

‘William Walcot 1974-1943, Magical Impressions’, The Building Centre with Gallery Lingard, London, 1990, no 76, as' Shipbuilding on the Clyde';
‘Impressions of Cities by William Walcot’, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, London, 2008, no 16;
'William Walcot: Artist & Architect', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, October 2018, no 43

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 six etchings celebrating the major river of Britain: The Thames, The Tyne, The Forth, The Clyde and The Mersey.
Russell's shipyard at Greenock is in the foreground.