Sickert's Shadow - title page
About this artwork
This etching by Roberts illustrates Walter Sickert (1860–1942), one of Britain’s leading artists, accompanied by a haunting shadow. In 2006 Roberts created the ‘Sickert’s Shadow Portfolio’, featuring five etchings in a self-contained box. The series explores the theory raised by numerous writers that Sickert could have been the mass murderer known as Jack the Ripper. Roberts suggests there may have been two sides of Sickert’s persona in this print; the smartly dressed man of society in the foreground, accompanied by his dark alter-ego.
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artist:Julie Roberts (born 1963) Welsh
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title:Sickert's Shadow - title page
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date created:2006
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materials:Etching with aquatint and spitbite
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measurements:Paper size 38.00 x 30.50 cm
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credit line:Gift of the artist 2015
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accession number:GMA 5533 A
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Julie Roberts
Julie Roberts
Roberts was born in Fflint, Wales. She studied at Wrexham School of Art, Central St Martin's School of Art and Design and Glasgow School of Art. Roberts established her name with paintings exploring the history of medicine, images of medical instruments, apparatuses and clothing, such as operating...