When Sickert began to initially paint music halls, they were in public distaste because of their vulgarity (West 53), however this view soon changed.Various sources suggest that although music halls were initially seen as immoral because of their associations with prostitution and alcohol (Sturgis 148), the middle class often visited the halls in the 1890s following dramatic measures took by the owners of the halls to clean up their reputations (Bailey 85). This included the Empire, which Guilbert was set to perform at, and the Oxford, the subject of Sickert’s image. Additionally, the Empire is noted to be something of a meeting place or a club for “members of the upper class and the bohemian set” (Kift 162). So, given the two differing theatres represented in Sickert’s image and Makower’s text and the differing audiences that visited either theatre, it can be said that a wide variety of people in fin de siècle England attended the music hall. “The Old Oxford Music Hall” does not display a novel, unexplored territory in its image, but a common image that would not be unfamiliar for much of the upper class and middle class. As such, both the middle class and the upper class would have been exposed to the performers that frequented the music halls. Again, this reveals that the Yellow Book is not displaying a revolutionary image in its inclusion of Sickert’s image, but a common image that is perhaps recognizable to many, thus reflecting the entertainment culture of the 1890s in England.