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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.90.40
People
Walter Sickert, British (Munich, Germany 1860 - 1942 Bathampton, Somerset, England)
Title
You'd Be Surprised
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1928-1929
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54922

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 30 x 11.5 cm (11 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Sickert
  • inscription: plate, in artist's hand: Etched, in cursive script, at l.l. within borderline: "Sickert"
  • inscription: l.l., below platemark, ink: 9/75
  • inscription: Center, below borderline: Lettered in center below borderline in italics: "Published by Ernest Brown & Phillips at the Leicester Galleries 1929"and in the center below in open capitals "YOU'D BE SURPRISED"
  • label: from removed backing board: The Fine Art Society PLC / 148 New Bond Street London W1S 2JT / 19858 / November 2001 / Walter Richard Sickert RA 1860-1942 / You'd be surprised 1928/29 / wtching printed in black ink / Reference: Bromberg 220

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[The Fine Art Society PLC London December 4 2002]; Patricia Cornwell; Harvard Art Museum

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv
Standard Reference Number
Br. 220

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
2009.90.40
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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