London Bridge from the Pool
Colour lithograph
published November 1841-
About the work
- Location
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Country: Bosnia
City: Sarajevo
Place: British Embassy
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About the artist
Topographical painter, watercolourist and lithographer William Parrott was the son of a farmer from Aveley, in Essex. He was initially apprenticed to engraver John Pye but later virtually abandoned engraving in favour of watercolour painting. Parrott exhibited in London at the Royal Academy (1835-63) and also at the British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere. He lived briefly in Paris (1842-43) and then Rome (1844-45), and published a series of twelve lithographs titled ‘Paris et ses Environs’ (1843). In 1851 he made a tour of Germany and he also paid frequent visits to Brittany and Normandy. Parrott occasionally painted figure subjects, including a caricature of J. M. W. Turner (1840; Ruskin Museum, Oxford).
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Explore
- Places
- England, London, City of London
- Subjects
- rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, river, man, woman, monument, bridge (urban), church, cathedral, sailboat, oar, buoy
- Materials & Techniques
- lithograph, colour lithograph
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Details
- Title
- London Bridge from the Pool
- Date
- published November 1841
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Parker Gallery, April 1964
- Inscription
- bottom left: W. PARROTT, DEL ET LITH. ; right: LONDON BRIDGE FROM THE POOL.
- GAC number
- 6393