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Hauling the Figurehead

William Henry Romaine Walker (1854-1940)

Price
£1,750 £950
Medium
Watercolour
Dimensions
9 ¾ x 7 ½ inches
Exhibited
Watercolour Drawings by Four Victorians', Walker Galleries, 21 April-10 May 1952, No 17 (10 Guineas);
'The Illustrators.The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 2010

Mounted

Tim Brittain-Catlin suggested that the buildings in the background are based on lifeboat stations, photographs of which appeared in The Builder in 1883. Romaine Walker appeared as an architect in The Builder in that year for the first time, so may well have seen the images.

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