Walter Sickert
The New Bedford (The Large Plate), 1915
Etching, drypoint, aquatint and soft-ground etching on wove paper
Plate: 53.7 x 16.5 cm / 21 1/8 x 6 1/2 in
Sheet: 56.5 x 19.8 cm / 22 1/4 x 7 3/4 in
Sheet: 56.5 x 19.8 cm / 22 1/4 x 7 3/4 in
Twelfth state (of thirteen)
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Leicester Art Books, LondonThe Fine Art Society and C. G. Boerner, 2002
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, May 2005
Exhibitions
Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Leicester Galleries' Collection of Sickert Etchings, 3 June – 1 July 1979, cat. no. 20, 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. 38*
London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 63*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 160, p. 197*Gordon Cooke and Richard Shone, Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2002, cat. no. 38, pp. 53–54 (this impression col. illus.)*
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, cat. no. 474.6, 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. 63, pp. 118–119 (col. illus.)*