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William
Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.
(Odessa
1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)
Lower
Broadway, New York
Lower
Broadway, New York
E
H-L 118. 151
x 117 mm. Etching,
1924.
Signed in pencil. Published by H C Dickins.
One of the five subjects that make up the New
York 'set'. Total edition of 375 issued 1923-24 (this plate
315 for the US & 60 for the UK.). Printed in
brown-black with plate tone on cream wove paper
with the proprietary watermark of the Dickins
New York branch AC&HWD Inc NEW YORK
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Additional
Information about the Print
Included
in the Fine Art Society one-man Walcot exhibition
in 1924.
Also
included in the 1929 Beaux Arts Gallery mixed
show of contemporary etchers.
Walcot's
publisher, Harold Wollvine Dickins, not only
instigated and financed the trip to New York
to etch the set but personally accompanied the
artist and arranged studio and printing facilities
through the New York office of the firm run by
his brother Alec. (The two brothers succeeded
their father in running the firm H C Dickins.)
In
his diary of the visit Dickins comments on
Walcot’s friendship with Cass Gilbert,
the architect of the famous Woolworth Building,
1911-13, here seen at the centre of the composition
with some of its ‘gothic’ detailing
which early earned it the nickname of the ‘Cathedral
of Commerce’.
In
another plate, Downtown Manhatten from
the East River Walcot showed it in is
entirety. In 1924 it was still the tallest
building in New York.
The
colonnaded portico of St. Paul’s Chapel,
Broadway (the only surviving Georgian church
in New York) is shown a block nearer to the
viewer. (One of the drawings in the 1924 Fine
Art Society Walcot exhibition was entitled St.
Paul’s Church, New York.)
The
other four titles of the New York ‘set’ are:
- Forty
Second Street, NY (EH-L 110), 1923
- Battery
Park, NY (EH-L 111), 1923
- Park
Avenue (EH-L 112) (included in the exhibition),
1923
- Brooklyn
Bridge (EH-L 113), 1923
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