Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford, Walter Richard Sickert, ca. 1890

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Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford, ca. 1890, Black chalk with white heightening, pen and ink, lines from blue transfer paper, on brown paper, sheet: 13 11/16 x 9 5/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Walter Richard Sickert (British, Munich 1860–1942 Bathampton, Somerset), Sickert drew this study as he prepared three oil versions of the subject around 1890. Within the interior of the Bedford Music Hall, the popular performer Vesta Victoria strums a banjo on stage, her lightly sketch figure surrounded by a list of detailed color notes

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