About this artwork
In 2006 Roberts created the ‘Sickert’s Shadow Portfolio’, a series of five etchings in a self-contained box. The series explores the theory raised by numerous writers that Sickert could have been the serial killer Jack the Ripper. Three of the portfolio etchings, including this one, illustrate women in bed chambers, while one is a portrait of Sickert. This print takes its title and composition from a painting by Sickert made in 1909, which related to the unsolved murder of prostitute Emily Dimmock in Camden Town in 1907.
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artist:Julie Roberts (born 1963) Welsh
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title:L'Affaire de Camden Town (from Sickert's Shadow Portfolio)
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date created:2006
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materials:Etching with aquatint and spitbite
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measurements:Paper 38.00 x 30.50 cm (Plate mark 22.50 x 17.60 cm)
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credit line:Gift 2015
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accession number:GMA 5533 C
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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...