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William
Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.
(Odessa
1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)
King
Charles in Whitehall
King
Charles in Whitehall
E
H-L 160. 148 x 199 mm. Etching with aquatint,
c.1929.
Signed in pencil. Inscribed in pencil and initialled
by Walcot as impression No.13 of the edition
of 50. A fine impression, printed with plate tone,
on cream wove paper.
£450
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Additional
Information about the Print
An impression was included in the 1929 Beaux Arts
Gallery group exhibition of contemporary etchers.
Unusual
in Walcot’s London plates in recreating
a historical scene rather than showing current
architecture and topography.
Either
a pre-Civil War ceremonial arrival at the Court
of Charles I, or Charles I arriving before his
execution. The
scaffolding at the left could indicate where the
hole would be knocked through the wall for the
event.
Walcot
envisages the remaining half-timbered medieval
buildings of the original palace, taken over from
Wolsey by Henry VIII, adjoining the splendid new
classical Banqueting Hall. The Civil War had prevented
completion of any more than the Banqueting House
of Inigo Jones’ grand design for a new royal
palace of Whitehall.
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