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Jack the Ripper's Bedroom

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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Dark, shadowy view of a bedroom seen through an open doorway. A wooden chair is in the foreground, in what is probably the hallway, to the left of the open door. A dressing table and chair are just distinguishable beneath the filtered pink half-light coming through the horizontal slats of the blind that covers the window at the back of the room. The items of furniture are so indistinct as to make it conceivable that there is a person sitting on the chair, although there is no one there. The bedroom is that of Sickert's own lodgings at 6 Mornington Crescent. His landlady had told Sickert that she suspected the previous tenant might have been Jack the Ripper, the famous murderer.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Jack the Ripper's Bedroom

Date

1906–1907

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.8 x W 40.7 cm

Accession number

1980.303

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mrs Mary Cicely Tatlock, 1980

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

None

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