UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Trafalgar Square

Impression:

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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

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