This print depicts a music hall in Shoreditch. The London Music Hall, or just ‘The London’, was also called the Shoreditch Empire. In 1915, Sickert wrote in a letter that ‘the zeppelins have gutted the “London” Shoreditch which is one of my favourite haunts’. It was only damaged, not destroyed, however, and he later returned to make drawings in early 1920. A related painting is inscribed with that date [Baron 2006, no. 574]. The London Shoreditch print depicts an elevated, oblique view of a performer silhouetted against the stage backdrop of a street. The man stands in a sharply delineated pool of spotlighting, and Sickert returned to a similar subject in That Old-Fashioned Mother of Mine.