The Treasury, Whitehall

Location

Country: Turkey
City: Istanbul
Place: British Consulate-General

Edmund Walker began as a miniature painter on ivory, abandoning the practice as photography grew in popularity. He then turned to architectural draughtsmanship, making sketches of country seats and selling them to the owners. His views of the Thames Embankment (completed 1870) were exhibited at the Royal Academy, as were many of his architectural drawings. Sometime before 1851 he began working for the publishers Day & Son. He made watercolour views and lithographs of the interiors of the Great Exhibition and lithographed William Simpson’s sketches of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny for the firm. He reportedly ‘never fully recovered’ from the effect of the failing fortunes of Day & Son, late in his career. Walker died in 1882, aged 68.

Places

England, London, Whitehall

Subjects

wheelbarrow, carriage, horseback, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, horse, baby, man, girl, basket, lamp post, street, bollard, pavement, government building, house, column

Materials & Techniques

colour lithograph

Artist

Edmund Walker (1813/14 - 1882)

Title

The Treasury, Whitehall

Date

1 May 1852

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, May 1979

GAC number

14557