William
Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.
(Odessa
1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)
Corner of Berkeley Square
(and Berkeley Street with a distant
view of the Ritz)
Corner of Berkeley Square (and Berkeley Street with
a distant view of the Ritz)
EH-L 175. 138
x 217 mm.
Etching and aquatint, c.1935-7.
Signed in pencil. A
fine impression, printed with plate tone, on cream
wove paper dated 1933.
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Additional
Information about the Print
Probably
another Valentine Crittall commission and perhaps
related to his supplying windows for this large
brick block built on the south side of the square
in 1936 on the site of the former garden of Lansdowne
House.
Other
titles, all London views generally with a new
building, commissioned by the Crittall family
are:
- Fleet
Street (EH-L 163), 1931
- ?Marble
Arch (EH-L 164), c1931, but perhaps 1930
or 1934
- The
Thames from Southwark Bridge (EH-L 167),
1932
- The
Circus, Piccadilly (EH-L 169), 1933
- Marsham
Street, Westminster (EH-L 176), 1936
- Changing
London-Euston Road at St Pancras (EH-L
178), 1937
- The
Quadrangle, Bart’s Hospital (EH-L
179), 1938
All except The
Circus are included in the exhibition.
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