An original vintage first edition print from 1925, after the pen and ink drawing by Hanslip Fletcher.
With later hand colouring.
The screen at Grosvenor House was a 110-foot-long classical-style colonnaded entrance screen that fronted the original Grosvenor House on Upper Grosvenor Street in Mayfair, London. Historically, this architectural feature served as an elegant, monumental barrier that restricted the public's view of the Duke of Westminster's sprawling private courtyard and mansion.
This was one of London’s grandest private entrances.
The screen and the historic palace, were demolished in the 1920s when the Duke of Westminster sold the property to build the current hotel.
This is one of a series of 28 pen and ink illustrations of London by Fletcher Hanslip.
They were originally published in the Sunday Times, and subsequently issued as books in 1925..Hanslip Fletcher was an important artist during the twentieth century. He produced numerous sketches of London and other British towns and cities.
This illustration shows London as it was in the 1920s.
Fletcher was a watercolour painter and printmaker with a special interest in London’s architecture.Born in London, he was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, and became a member of the Art Workers’ Guild. He lived in London all of his life.Fletcher’s work featured regularly in London’s serious daily and Sunday newspapers, and he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Goupil Gallery, the Royal Institution and in other London galleries.
