Walter Sickert
The Old Bedford (The Large Plate), 1908, c.
Etching touched with pencil on wove paper laid on board
Plate: 27.8 x 18 cm / 11 x 7 1/8 in
Sheet: 32.4 x 22.9 cm / 12 3/4 x 9 in
Sheet: 32.4 x 22.9 cm / 12 3/4 x 9 in
First state (of thirteen); Unique proof
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Provenance
Ethel SandsRuth and Joseph Bromberg
The Fine Art Society, London, 2004
The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, Los Angeles, May 2005
Exhibitions
London, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 21 Sept. – 21 Oct. 2004, cat. no. 39*London, Piano Nobile, Sickert: Love, Death & Ennui. The Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, 26 Sept. – 19 Dec. 2025, no. 10*
Literature
Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 130, p. 125–127 (illus.)*The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society, 2004, cat. no. 39, pp. 38–39 (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. 10, p. 40 (col. illus.)*