"Lady - Rotten Row" from 'London Types' by William Newzam Prior Nicholson
"Lady - Rotten Row" from 'London Types'
William Newzam Prior Nicholson
Title
"Lady - Rotten Row" from 'London Types'
Artist
William Newzam Prior Nicholson
1872 - 1949 (biography)Year
1898
Technique
transfer lithograph printed in colors
Image Size
10 x 9" image size
Signature
unsigned, as published
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
printed quatorzain "Newgate Street", by William Ernest Henley on verso
Reference
Paper
cream wove
State
published
Publisher
William Heinemann, London, as part of the Popular Edition of "London Types"
Inventory ID
CAAL202
Price
$200.00
Description
From the series of thirteen plates in Nicholson's London Types, published in a portfolio with typeset quatorzains (14 line poems) by William Ernest Henley. Pictured in this image is a couple walking arm-in-arm along the Rotten Row social promenade, or "broad track", in Hyde Park, London.
Originally built in the 17th century as a safer route for William III to travel between Kensington and St. James' palaces, it soon became a gathering place for the fashionable elite to see and be seen. It was later broadened and improved with bricks and fine gravel for horesback riding and, at the time of the portfolio's publication, it was a where the upper class would go riding in their finery.