| Walter Richard Sickert, the German-born painter and etcher who lived from 1860 until 1942, was a student of James McNeil Whistler and a disciple of Edgar Degas. |
| The painter, lithographer and etcher was born in Knaresborough in 1872 and studied at Scarborough School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. |
| A painter and a colorist, 52 in this book he displays his genius as an etcher. |
| This was also a time when he began to collaborate with the Liège etcher Armand Rassenfosse. |
| Later, working as a painter, etcher and interior designer in Paris and London, he was renowned for his wit, style and elegance. |
| In dry-point the etcher commences at once upon the bare copper plate without any ground. |
