Félix Hilaire Buhot
Westminster Palace, London
1884
Physical Qualities
Etching, 282 × 389 mm. (11 1/8 × 15 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Conrad Collection
Object Number
1932.17.90
This elaborately framed depiction of the Houses of Parliament focuses on a stately view of the monumental mass of the Parliament buildings. The urban context is amplified by Buhot’s “symphonic margins,” which extend his subject’s meaning. These fanciful vignettes draw our attention to the edges of the composition, rather than allowing us to fix on the primary subject as in a standard topographic view.
Bought from Bendann in 1917
Inscribed: Signed in foreground of view on plate, Felix Buhot, 1884; l/l in remarque margin, Westminster Palace, London (In progress for erased). Lower margin center, the Buhot stamp in vermillon, and to the right 'epreuve d'artiste sur parchemin, Felix Buhot'
