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William Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.  
(Odessa 1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)

Marsham Street, Westminster

Marsham Street, Westminster
E H-L  176. 175 x 252 mm. Etching & aquatint, 1936.
Signed in pencil. A fine impression, printed with plate tone, on cream wove paper. A little time-toned.

£500

Additional Information about the Print

A Sir Valentine Crittall (of Crittall’s Windows) commission, for Christmas 1936.

The extensive scaffolding suggest more blocks of new buildings (with Crittall windows?) as the principal subject of the plate.

Other titles commissioned by the Crittall family are:

• ?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
• ?Corner of Berkeley Square (EH-L 175), 1935
• 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.