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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

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

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

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

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

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Leicester Galleries, London Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Artist Bio

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

Artworks by Walter Richard Sickert

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