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William
Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.
(Odessa
1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)
Charing
Cross – The Statue of Charles I
Charing
Cross – The Statue of Charles I
E
H-L 79. 91 x 125 mm. Etching & drypoint, 1919.
Signed in pencil. Published by H C Dickins. Edition of 175. On F
J Head & Co cream
laid paper. Faintly light-stained.
£500
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Additional
Information about the Print
Included in the Beaux Arts 1929 mixed show of
contemporary etchings.
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.
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