Location

Country: Bahrain
City: Manama
Place: British Embassy

Interpretation about this artwork is under review

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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

topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, hospital

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)
Edmund Walker (1813/14 - 1882)

Title

Greenwich Hospital

Date

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Vicars Bros, July 1955

GAC number

3275