Cruikshank's House on Coronation Day - Walter Richard Sickert - 1860-1942
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Year: 1911
Medium: Etching
Inscribed:
This impression inscribed 'Sickert' lower left and 'Rutland St. No. 36' lower right.
Size: 16.5 x 19.6 cms
Description:
Only state: Lessore Collection and other repositories.
The subject is the houses on Hampstead Road, one of which was lived in by the illustrator George Cruikshank (1792-1878), around the corner from Sickert's studio in Mornington Crescent. According to Sickert's annotation, another building is Wellington House Academy, where Dickens went to school. The date is that of the coronation of George V.
David Strang printed 16 posthumous impressions (1945-47) for the Sickert Trust before cancelling the plate.
Literature:
Bromberg 140
£750.00
