Dedicated, signed with monogram and dated in pen and ink Venezia benedetta / To Ethel. W. S. 1915
Literature: Bromberg 173 I/III, this impression illustrated p. 215.
Sale Catalogue, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, London, 2004, n. 104.
Provenance: Ethel Sands;
Ruth and Joseph Bromberg;
The Fine Art Society, London 2004
Exhibitions: London, The Fine Art Society, The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, 2004, n. 104.
Before the reduction of the plate and all lettering. Before the addition of engraved lines.
Sickert represented the four bronze horses of St Mark in Venice in four printed and several painted or drawn versions, on which he had been working since 1901 (Baron 2006, n. 167).
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