Westminster Bridge
Medium
etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, and spit-bite etching on laid paper
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.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1261
About the Artist
Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1847–1898
Félix-Hilaire Buhot was born on July 9, 1847, in Valognes, a small town in Normandy, France, into a modest family—his father a wine merchant and his mother a seller of women's clothes. Orphaned by age seven after losing both parents and his maternal grandmother, he was raised by relatives, including a godfather, and received an early introduction to drawing from his adopted mother's nephew. In 186...