Westminster Bridge

1884

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Associated Names
Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Artist, French, 1847 - 1898

The image shows a busy urban scene in London. The view is from an elevated perspective, looking across a bustling street with Big Ben in the center. The sky takes up a significant portion of the scene. The artist uses fine strokes to create texture and movement, especially in the sky and the busy street below. The color palette is predominately sepia, giving the image a vintage look. Additional scenes and structures surround the main image, adding depth to the composition. The sky is textured to suggest movement and depth to the cityscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and spit-bite etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 28 x 38.8 cm (11 x 15 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 36.5 x 48.7 cm (14 3/8 x 19 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1261

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2005

  • The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 37.

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.

1983

  • Fisher/Baxter 1983, cf.79.

Wikidata ID

Q64955957

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