Royal Exchange and the Bank of England

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road

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

Subjects

carriage, horseback, cart, hansom cab, statue (as Subject), topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, boy, man, woman, railing, lamp post, street, pavement, bank (as Subject (building type)), Royal Exchange (as subject), window

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Edmund Walker (1813/14 - 1882)
Day and Son

Title

Royal Exchange and the Bank of England

Date

1 May 1852

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

GAC number

15218