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Trafalgar Square |  () | |
| Number: | 249 | |
| Date: | 1885 | |
| Medium: | mezzotint | |
| Size: | unknown mm | |
| Signed: | unknown | |
| Inscribed: | unknown | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 0 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (0) | ||
KEYWORD
architecture, city, square.
TITLE
There is only one reference to this mezzotint:
'Trafalgar Square' (1887, Charles Dowdeswell (1856?-1921)). 3
'Trafalgar Square' (1887, Charles Dowdeswell (1856?-1921)). 3
3: C. Dowdeswell, note, 30 September 1887, GUW #08720.
DESCRIPTION
A view from Cockspur Street looking across Trafalgar Square to the front of the National Gallery, London. The view was taken from Prichard's, a chemist at 65 Charing Cross.
DISCUSSION
Whistler made a sketch of the proposed view, Trafalgar Square
[m1022]. It is not known if it was actually printed.
4
4: Hopkinson 1998 .