signed lower right: 'Sickert'

The Mornington Crescent and Granby Street titles are mutually exclusive. Sickert's studio at Mornington Crescent was at no.6, within a terrace, not, as often published, on the corner of Granby Street. Granby Street and mornington Crescent do not share a corner. On the contrary, Sickert's studio at Granby Street was on the corner of Granby Road (it's official address was 'Wellington House Academy'). Sickert's inscription on drawing 353.I strongly favours the Mornington Crescent location, as does the pattern of the ironwork balcony outside the window in the painting, which echoes that depicted in girl at a window [337]. Sickert use his studios as if they were stage sets, shifting the furniture around to create a variety of settings. Here the tall windows on the first floor of Mornington Crescent are not obscured by furniture.