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The Camden Town Murder(or What Shall We Do About the Rent?)
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Words are an impure medium; better far to have been born into the silent kingdom of paint . . . [Sickert] likes to set his characters in motion, to watch them in action . . . The figures are motionless, of course, but each has been seized in a moment of crisis; it is difficult to look at them and not invent a plot, to hear what they are saying.—Virginia Woolf1(p23)
Throughout his life, Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), who began his career as a stage actor, was renowned for his imaginative, indeed protean, ability to change "his appearance, opinions, or style of life."2(p8) He loved disguise and frequently changed his identity as he played out many roles. Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell concluded that one of those roles was a real-life one, that of the notorious London Whitechapel murderer, Jack the Ripper, who slaughtered and mutilated middle-aged prostitutes. Following up a comment made by a deputy assistant commissioner, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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