William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.

Ludgate Hill

1921

A view of lower Manhattan's Cherry Street as it appeared at the turn of the 20th century. One of only 5 proof impressions. New York: 1904. Drypoint with aquatint on watermarked, cr...

New York: 1934. Etching with drypoint printed in brownish black ink on white, buff wove paper, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (170 x 221 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and inscribed "Arti...

Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (270 x 190 mm), full margins. Signed, inscribed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Some small, scattered light spots...

A view of the gateway to Simmons-Edwards House (14 Legare Street), also known as the Pineapple Gate House. Etching with drypoint on watermarked "Hand Made" laid paper, signed in pen...

William Walcot. R.E., R.I.B.A. San Marco. Etching with drypoint and aquatint. Dickins 66, Harvey-Lee 91. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/8). Venice set, # 2. Edition 415. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper. Fold in the margin, well outside the image; otherwise good condition. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat. Soon after Walcot's arrival in England, the Fine Art Society sponsored a trip sent to Italy. This scene is one of four small drypoints that resulted from the artist’s stay in Venice. When he was seventeen, he began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...

Ludgate Hill. 1921. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Dickins 69. 5 5/8 x 5 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 9 3/4). A fine proof with plate tone, printed on 'J Wha[tman] cream wove paper. Edition of 275 for the UK and 125 for the US. Signed in pencil. Ludgate Hill is a street that runs west from St. Paul's Churchyard to Ludgate Circus (built in 1864), and from there becomes Fleet Street. The Ludgate Hill railway station, between Water Lane and New Bridge Street, is a station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. It was closed before World War II and the railway bridge and viaduct between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars stations was demolished in 1990 to enable the construction of the City Thameslink railway station in a tunnel. This also involved the regrading of the slope of Ludgate Hill at the junction. About halfway up Ludgate Hill is St Martin, Ludgate church. This was physically joined to the Ludgate. When he was seventeen, William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...

Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil. Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons. Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein. When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...

The First Wooden Temple of Jupiter or Restoration of one of the first Temples of Jupiter Capitolinus, Rome.Dickins 47. 5 1/8 x 7 1/8 (sheet 9 3/16 x 11 5...