William
Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.
(Odessa
1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)
The Quadrangle, Bart’s Hospital
The
Quadrangle, Bart’s Hospital
EH-L 179. 152
x 254 mm. Etching, drypoint & aquatint, 1938.
Signed in pencil
in the blank strip at the foot of the plate. A fine
impression, printed in brown-black ink with plate tone,
on cream wove paper.
£750
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Additional
Information about the Print
Commissioned
by Sir Valentine Crittall for Christmas 1938.
Selected perhaps because the previous year the
George V block, designed by Lodge (and with Ctrittall
windows?) replaced the south block of Gibb’s
18th century building erected when William Hogarth
was a governor.
The
oldest hospital in London, St Bartholomew’s
was founded on its present site in West Smithfield
in 1123. An important teaching hospital, medical
students were first recorded there in 1662, though
probably go back further. In 1900 the medical school
became part of London University.
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
- ?Corner
of Berkeley Square (EH-L 175), 1935
- Marsham
Street, Westminster (EH-L 176), 1936
- Changing
London-Euston Road at St Pancras (EH-L 178),
1937
All except The
Circus are included in the exhibition. |