Westminster Bridge, 1884

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint with tonal wiping in black (main subject) and brown (margins) ink on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 28 x 38.8 cm (11 x 15 1/4 in.)

sheet: 35.7 x 46.3 cm (14 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2017.199.8

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

upper right in graphite: a [indecipherable] petit cache; lower left in plate: Clock Tower London; lower center in plate: Under Ground; lower right in graphite: Ret/Chlov. Pol. Brouge [indecipherable] Cl. Tauv. [indecipherable and crossed out]; lower right verso in graphite: P.A.C. #10853 Cl. Bas

Marks and Labels

Felix Buhot's studio stamp (Lugt 977)

Provenance

Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Gunnarsson, Helena

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 36.

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, no. 156, , vi/viii.