Piano Nobile

The Music Hall
Music hall was the pre-eminent metropolitan popular entertainment of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its performers ranged from bawdy public-house turns to the early celebrities of Hollywood such as Charlie Chaplin. Sickert went to halls on London’s peripheries at Shoreditch, Canning Town, Camden Town, as well as those in the West End such as the Oxford on Oxford Street, the Empire in Leicester Square and the Middlesex (or ‘Old Mo’) in Drury Lane. ‘He came because he loved it, because it was moving with a colourful, romantic life of its own’, Emmons wrote.13 For long periods of Sickert’s career, beginning in 1884 or so, Sickert visited the music halls and there made drawings and etchings from life.
Artworks
Walter Sickert
The Old Bedford – A Music-Hall Singer, 1888, c.
Etching on laid paper

Sheet: 11.5 x 8.8 cm / 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in

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- The Old Bedford, Camden Town, 1894–95
  Pencil, coloured crayon, pen and ink and body colour on buff paper
  33.7 x 22.9 cm
  13 1/4 x 9 in
  £22,000 + 5% UK import
- Study for The Old Bedford, c. 1894
  Pencil on paper
  31.7 x 19.8 cm
  12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in
  £11,000 + 5% UK import
  
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- The Old Bedford (The Large Plate), c. 1908
  Etching, drypoint and engraving 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
  First state (of thirteen); Unique proof
  £2,000 + 5% UK import
  
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- The Old Bedford (The Large Plate), c. 1908
  Etching on wove paper
  Plate: 26.5 x 15.5 cm / 10 1/4 x 6 in
  Sheet: 31 x 21.2 cm / 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 in
  Third state (of twelve)
  £2,500 + 5% UK import
  
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- The Old Bedford (The Large Plate), c. 1908
  Etching, engraving and drypoint 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
  Ninth state (of thirteen)
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- The Old Bedford (The Large Plate), c. 1908
  Etching drypoint and engraving on laid paper
  Plate: 26.4 x 15.8 cm / 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in
  Sheet: 27.8 x 21.3 cm / 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in
  Between eleventh and twelfth states (of thirteen); Unique proof
  £2,600 + 5% UK import
  
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Artworks
Walter Sickert
The Old Bedford (The Small Plate), 1910
Etching on tan wove paper
Plate: 11.1 x 8.5 cm / 4 3/8 x 3 3/8 in
Sheet: 31. 8 x 22.7 cm / 12 1/2 x 8 7/8 in
Only state; Edition 30 of 50

£2,000 + 5% UK import

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- The Old Mogul Tavern, Drury Lane, 1908
  Signed lower right 'Sickert'
  Etching and aquatint on laid paper
  Plate: 25.1 x 17.9 cm / 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 in
  Sheet: 46 x 29.5 cm / 18 x 11 1/2 in
  Second state (of three)
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- Noctes Ambrosianæ, c. 1908
  Etching and aquatint on wove paper
  Plate: 21.8 x 25.3 cm / 8 1/2 x 10 in
  Sheet: 31.7 x 45 cm / 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 in
  Third state (of three); Edition 30 of 50
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