Westminster Bridge, 1884

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, aquatint, soft-ground etching, and roulette in brownish-black ink on wove paper, backed with thin tissue

Dimensions

plate: 28.7 x 40 cm (11 5/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

sheet: 30.2 x 42.8 cm (11 7/8 x 16 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 156, State vii/viii

Accession Number

2002.98.419

Artists / Makers

Félix-Hilaire Buhot (artist) French, 1847 - 1898

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

center right in plate: THIS DESIRABLE / TO LET; lower left in plate: Clock Tower London; lower center in plate: Under Ground; lower right, below plate mark, in graphite: Felix Buhot

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 7, 1969; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy Galleries

Bibliography

1899: Bourcard, Gustave. Felix Buhot: catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre grave. Paris: H. Floury, 1899. Reprint. With additions and revisions by James Goodfriend. New York: Martin Goodfriend, 1979.