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William
Walcot R.E., Hon.R.I.B.A.
(Odessa
1874 – 1943 Ditchling, Sussex)
A Performance in the Colosseum in the days of the Ancient Romans
A Performance in the Colosseum in the days of the Ancient Romans
Dickins 52, EH-L 73
525 x 626 mm
Original etching with drypoint and aquatint, 1916.
Signed in pencil.
Published by H C Dickins, 1918, edition size not recorded.
On stout wove, a little time-stained and foxed in the margins.
A repaired tear at the right edge.
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Additional
Information about the Print
An impression exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1916.
An impression exhibited in Walcot’s one-man show at James Connell in 1918.
Malcolm Salaman commented in his introduction to the Studio Masters of Etching : William Walcot , 1927,
“… in A Performance at the Colosseum, a wonderful plate, we are shown the whole place functioning,
not one of the huge audience is defined, yet we seem to see them all”.
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