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    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.
  • Walter Sickert, The Old Bedford – A Music-Hall Singer, 1888, c.

    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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  • Walter Sickert, The Old Bedford (The Small Plate), 1910

    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
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  • Noctes Ambrosianæ, 1908, c.

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