Inscribed in pen and ink on the mount Sickert/ Rosie Pettigrew and Another 1884
Literature: Bromberg 38 only state, one of two impressions recorded.
Provenance: Collection Mrs George Swinton;
with Leicester Galleries, London 1925;
with Agnews & Sons Ltd, London 1972.
Exhibition: London, Leicester Galleries, The etched and engraved work of Walter Sickert A.R.A., from 1884 to 1924, 1925, n. 7;
Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, The Life Work of Walter Richard Sickert, Temple Newsam House, 1942, n. 10.
Born in 1872, Rose was the youngest of the three Pettigrew sisters, who became professional artist’s models after they moved to London in 1884 from the West Country. Harriet, or Hetty, the oldest of the three born in 1867, was Theodore Roussel's model and mistress until 1914. Together with Lilian, or Lilly, born in 1870, the sisters posed for some of the most famous artists of the time, including Millais, Lord Leighton, Whistler and Sickert. Sickert represented Rose in the same year of her move to London in what is one of his earliest etchings, while he was still Whistler's pupil and assistant.
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