Study of the Orchestra Pit, the Old Middlesex

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2009.90.22
People: Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title: Study of the Orchestra Pit, the Old Middlesex
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1906
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/11328

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal, white chalk and black ink on brown wove paper

Dimensions

24.6 x 21.5 cm (9 11/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., brown ink: Rd St A.R.A.
inscription: lower left, brown ink: Dettaglio / Old Middlesex

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mark Oliver, London. [Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1960]. Private collection, U.S.A. [Christie's, South Kensington, London, 20 October 2005, lot 2], sold; to [Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, Calne, Wiltshire], sold; to Patricia Cornwell, 20 October 2005; gift to Harvard Art Museum, 2009

NOTE: Mark Oliver was a pupil of Sickert and owner of the Savile Gallery.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Accession Year: 2009
Object Number: 2009.90.22
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon (London, England, 1973), p. 341, no. 231.8
Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 282.10

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