A trio of drypoint etchings, including "St. Mary's Church, The Strand", 5-1/4" x 7-1/8" plate size, 11-1/2" x 13" with frame, "Whitehall", 4-1/2" x 6" plate size, 10-1/4" x 11-3/4" with frame, and "Charing Cross, London", 3-1/2" x 4-7/8" plate size, 9-3/4" x 11-1/8" with frame. Each is pencil signed in the lower right margin, and each is matted and framed under glass.
English draughtsman, printmaker, architect and painter, William Walcot was born in 1874 in Lustdorf near Odessa, Russia. When he was seventeen, he began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole in 1898. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Walcot was the most celebrated architectural draughtsman in England, enhancing the scale and drama of the buildings he depicted with his mastery of techniques including watercolor and gouache. Most of his etchings he produced between 1913-24 were published by H.C.Dickens. Walcot exhibited at the RA, RBA and RE., he was elected ARE in 1918 and RE in 1920. He illustrated several books with original etchings.
200/400 Sold $218.50
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