Walter Sickert
The Camden Town Murder (Larger plate)
, 1908
Etching with aquatint on laid paper
10.5 x 7.5 inches
A unique intermediary state between Bromberg's second and third states (of three) see pp.133-135, with the upper outline of the man's head completed but before the burnishing and erasures, with margins.
Signed and dated in the plate
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Provenance
Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London;
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 13 April 1965. Lot 10 where acquired by George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011) and by descent;
Property from the Descendants of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary sake
Literature
Bromberg, cat. no. 131