Cheyne Walk
Medium
Etching, with aquatint, in black on cream wove paper Broad margins all around
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.8 × 30.2 cm (8 1/4 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.4 × 36.2 cm (10 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28053
Art Historical Context
**Cheyne Walk** by Walter William Burgess captures the charm of a quintessential London riverside scene along the Thames in Chelsea. Cheyne Walk, a historic street lined with elegant Georgian houses, has long attracted artists, writers, andaries like J.M.W. Turner and James McNeill Whistler. Burgess, a British printmaker active in the late19th and early th centuries, specialized in evocative etchings of urban landscapes, preserving the atmospheric beauty of Victorian and Edwardian London. This undated work is an etching enhanced with aquatint, a technique that allows for subtle tonal gradatio...