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Study for the Great Gantry, Charing Cross

Maker

(artist)
1876-1953

Title

Date of Production

1907

Medium

graphite, red crayon, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on buff wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 33.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1976.XX.11

Mode of Acquisition

Rhoda Welsford, bequest, 1976

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

gantries

Label Text

Trained as an architect, Muirhead Bone was Britain’s first official war artist on the Western Front during the First World War. He began his artistic career strolling London’s streets at night, sketching the city’s architecture enveloped in inky blackness. This highly-worked drawing, executed with a restricted palette, depicts the gantry of Charing Cross encased in a web of ropes and scaffolding, smoke and dust. Human figures and locomotives appear minuscule against the backdrop of this yawning structure.

Provenance

Thomas Agnew and Sons (London); purchased there by Rhoda Welsford, London (1894-1975), by 1955; Welsford Bequest 1976

Exhibition History

Special Display - Building and Destruction - Architectural Imagery from the Courtauld's Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/10/2009-17/01/2010

Drawings and Drypoints by Sir Muirhead Bone, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, 1955

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower margin, graphite: "Study for the Great Gantry Charing Cross / Muirhead Bone 1907".

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Now missing but recorded in file: Thos Agnew & Sons Ltd, no. 11343 and "144 Sir Muirhead Bone The Great Gantry".

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