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WALTER SICKERT.
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considerably in the task of revolutionizing the English pictorial poster. The



impression created by their designs on Frenchmen, who are past masters in the art of the hoarding, is most favourable.

It will be remembered that when Mr. Sickert took it into his head to depict the Sisters Lloyd in their music-hall habit, the critics fell out greatly. Even the young ladies in question had, it is. said, scant affection for a design in which everything was suggested and nothing declared. They had, it is true, the recompense of advertisement, and that, to a music-hall singer, is a very sweet recompense. It was characteristic