In 1906 Sickert painted the gallery of the Middlesex Music Hall in Drury Lane, full to bursting with a rapt audience [Baron 2006, no. 280]. He called the picture Noctes Ambrosianæ, which is erroneous Latin for ‘ambrosial nights’. It was the first music hall scene he made in London after returning from France the year before. This print derived from the painting of 1906. A closely related upright plate of the subject, The Old Mogul Tavern, Drury Lane [Bromberg 128], was dated 1908. Noctes Ambrosianæ was likely made around the same time. Both prints use the same composition and the upright plate is a crop that shows the left-hand side of this print. Noctes Ambrosianæ was printed at Rowlandson House in 1910 as an edition of fifty, while The Old Mogul Tavern, Drury Lane was published much later by the Leicester Galleries in 1929. Aquatint was used to suggest the crepuscular atmosphere in the theatre’s upper echelons, a technique that ‘mimicked the atmospheric effects of his paintings of the period’, as Wendy Baron has noted. This impression of Noctes Ambrosianæ was previously owned by Sir George Whistler, who served as Whistler’s solicitor.