DOI issue:
No. 363 (June 1923)
DOI article:Salaman, Malcolm C.: William Walcot's etchings of the old and new worlds
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21397#0339
WILLIAM WALCOT’S ETCHINGS
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44 BATTERY PLACE/' DRY-POINT BY
WILLIAM WALCOT, R.E., HON.
F.R.I.B.A. (PUBLISHED BY A. C. AND
H. W. DICKINS, INC., NEW YORK)
Hadrian himself in his villa at Tivoli.
For here, in A Tragedy by Sophocles at
Hadrian's Villa, the artist shows us, as
truly as if he had been one of the imperial
builder's own architects, the interior of
one of the theatres in which the travel-
weary Hadrian delighted amid circum-
stance of pomp to indulge his dreams and
memories of Greek art ; and here we see,
before a select audience, (Edipus and
Jocasta and the Chorus suggesting the
whole sombre movement of Greek tragedy.
Ruins do not exist for Walcot except as
inspirations for building afresh with his
architectural imagination in sympathetic
alliance with his pictorial vision and
archaeological knowledge ; but if he calls
an ancient ruined building pictorially into
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fa!
: M ft
: iy'
44 BATTERY PLACE/' DRY-POINT BY
WILLIAM WALCOT, R.E., HON.
F.R.I.B.A. (PUBLISHED BY A. C. AND
H. W. DICKINS, INC., NEW YORK)
Hadrian himself in his villa at Tivoli.
For here, in A Tragedy by Sophocles at
Hadrian's Villa, the artist shows us, as
truly as if he had been one of the imperial
builder's own architects, the interior of
one of the theatres in which the travel-
weary Hadrian delighted amid circum-
stance of pomp to indulge his dreams and
memories of Greek art ; and here we see,
before a select audience, (Edipus and
Jocasta and the Chorus suggesting the
whole sombre movement of Greek tragedy.
Ruins do not exist for Walcot except as
inspirations for building afresh with his
architectural imagination in sympathetic
alliance with his pictorial vision and
archaeological knowledge ; but if he calls
an ancient ruined building pictorially into
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