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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.12
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
Dieppe Harbor
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1898
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12883

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, blue-white wash, and black chalk on tan wove paper
Dimensions
23.2 x 28.4 cm (9 1/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., red ink: Sickert
  • inscription: lower center, red ink, in artist's hand: Dieppe harbour
  • gallery label: back of mount, printed and inscribed: Roland, Browse & Delbanco / 19 Cork Street Old Bond Street London W1 Regent 7984-5 / title "THE HARBOUR - DIEPPE" / artist W. R. SICKERT
  • inscription: upper right, black ink: [illegible]
  • label: formerly back of frame, typed: Item: - 22 from 100507/92 / Pen & Ink on Paper by Walter / Richard Sickert, "The Harbour, / [dimensions, cut off]
  • label: removed from backing: 30 June 2005 / Sale: 5596 / 75 / Christie's

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Lucy Carrington Wertheim, sold; [Christie's, London, 9 December 1960, lot 128]. [Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1969]. Denys Sutton; by descent. [Christie's South Kensington, 30 June 2005, lot 75, repr.]. Patricia Cornwell, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Copyright
© Estate of Walter Richard Sickert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.90.12
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard Seddon, Sickert: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, exh. cat., Graves Art Gallery (Sheffield, 1957), no. 113
  • Wendy Baron, Sickert, Phaidon (London, England, 1973), p. 318, no. 107.2
  • Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), no. 118.12

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Drawings by W.R. Sickert, A.R.A., Savile Gallery, London, 02/01/1926 - 02/28/1926
  • Sickert: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 01/01/1957 - 12/31/1957
  • Walter Richard Sickert: Drawings, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 05/29/1969 - 06/28/1969

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