English Echoes. A series of paintings by RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A

“The picture here are from the series Walter Sickert made in the late 1920s and early 1930s which he described as ‘Echoes’. They were mainly copied from Victorian illustrations which he found in old editions of the Illustrated London News and similar publications; he made in all around a hundred such works. Sickert took The Seducer from a design by Sir John Gilbert (1818–1897), which is acknowledged in the inscription. The published source for the design remains unidentified. Sickert made more Echoes after Gilbert than after anyone else.” Tate Gallery

Scarce and unusual Sickert catalogue