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'That Old Fashioned Mother of Mine' (Talbot O'Farrell) (1928)

Walter Richard Sickert

etching and engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Physical Object Description:

Spot lit male performer (traditionally identified as Talbot O'Farrell), whole-length and in profile to left, wearing a dress suit and top hat, standing on stage and singing. c.1928
Etching and engraving. Lettered with signature, title and publication details: within image "Sickert" (along edge of backdrop) and beneath image "Published by Ernest Brown & Phillips at the Leicester Galleries 1928" (centre, immediately beneath image) and "THAT OLD FASHIONED MOTHER OF MINE" (centre). Inscribed in black ink, not in the artist's hand: "18/55" (at lower left, beneath platemark).

Technique:

Etching, Engraving

Dimensions:

19.4 x 14.9 cm

Accession Number:

1932,0514.18

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1932

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Leicester Galleries by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1928-32; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1932

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