Westminster Bridge, or Westminster Clock Tower
1860–98
Medium
Etching, drypoint, roulette, aquatint and spit bite; second state of eight
Dimensions
Plate: 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (28.5 x 40 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 x 17 5/8 in. (31.5 x 44.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1921
Accession Number
21.16.4
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...