The Etchings of Walter Sickert

Bath, Pulteney Bridge
Bath, Pulteney Bridge by Walter Richard Sickert

 

Black ink over pencil, squared in red ink1916-18220x260mm

Ref: Bromberg 180a

 

The preparatory drawing for the etching. Signed and titled by the artist in ink.

Sickert made only four etchings of Bath subjects, two of Lansdown Crescent [B. 178 & 179] and two of the Pulteney Bridge [B. 180 & 196]; all are extremely rare. The etching for which this is a study is known in only three impressions.