Walter Sickert
The New Bedford (The Small Plate), 1915
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 28 x 18.6 cm / 11 x 7 3/8 in
Sheet: 29.8 x 21.7 cm / 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in
Sheet: 29.8 x 21.7 cm / 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in
First state (of four)
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Arthur and Madeleine CliftonRuth and Joseph Bromberg
The Fine Art Society, London, 2004
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, May 2004
Exhibitions
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Centenary Exhibition of Etchings & Drawings by W. R. Sickert, 15 March – 14 April 1960, cat. no. 192 ('Small narrow upright plate. 1st state. Inscribed in Sickert's handwriting with title')*London, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 21 Sept. – 21 Oct. 2004, cat. no. 87*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 57*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 161, p. 198 (this impression illus.)*
The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2004, cat. no. 87, pp. 78, 81 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 474.7, p. 443
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 57, pp. 114–115 (col. illus.)*