Chris Beetles Gallery

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Charing Cross – The Statue of Charles I

William Walcot (1874-1943)

Price

£650

Signed

Signed in pencil
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', Fine Art Society, London, May 1923;
'Etchings and Watercolours by William Walcot',Fine Art Societ y, London, June 1924
'Original Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints by Younger
Contemporary Gravers', Beaux Arts Gallery, London,
April-May 1929, as 'Charles I Statue, Charing Cross'
'The London Show 1750-2025' Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March 2025

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

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