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