Walter Sickert
The Old Bedford (The Large Plate), 1908, c.
Etching and engraving on laid paper with unicorn watermark
Plate: 26.5 x 15.4 cm / 10 1/2 x 6 in
Sheet: 30.2 x 21.4 cm / 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 cm
Sheet: 30.2 x 21.4 cm / 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 cm
Ninth state (of thirteen)
Copyright The Artist
Sickert presented this print as a gift at Christmas 1917 to M.L., most probably his friend Marjorie Lilly with whom he was closely acquainted at that time.
Sickert presented this print as a gift at Christmas 1917 to M.L., most probably his friend Marjorie Lilly with whom he was closely acquainted at that time.
Provenance
Leicester Art Books, LondonThe Fine Art Society and C. G. Boerner, 2002
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, Dec. 2002
Exhibitions
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Centenary Exhibition of Etchings & Drawings by W. R. Sickert, 15 March – 14 April 1960, cat. no. 143 ('Medium upright plate. 9th state')
Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Leicester Galleries' Collection of Sickert Etchings, 3 June – 1 July 1979, cat. no. 22, touring to Melbourne, University Gallery, 11 Sept. – 21 Oct. 1979*
New York, C. G. Boerner/The Fine Art Society, Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life. An Exhibition of Prints, 1883–1929, 10 – 25 Oct. 2002, cat. no. 13*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, cat. no. 12*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 130, pp. 125, 129 (this impression illus.)*Gordon Cooke and Richard Shone, Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2002, cat. no. 13, pp. 28–29 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 97.18, p. 213
Kate Aspinall, Luke Farey and Stuart Lucas, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Piano Nobile, 2025, no. 12, p. 42 (col. illus.)*