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 Room 7 

Room 7 features works on paper, including a pencil drawing of Freud's father and a final drawing of his mother, The Painter's Mother Dead 1989. Freud had made a few etchings in the 1940s, but did not take it up again until 1982. The exhibition's curator, William Feaver, has said 'To Freud etching is a kind of reflective drawing - he draws, scrawls on the copper plate, and then, once it's been put into the acid bath and has been proofed by the printer, he discovers what it's like - it's rather like getting your snaps back from the chemist.' Freud made etchings of friends such as the picture editor Bruce Bernard 1985; a display of Bernard's photographic portraits of artists, including Lucian Freud, can be seen in Room 18 at Tate Britain. Also in room 7 is an etching of Freud's solicitor, Lord Goodman in his Yellow Pyjamas 1987, who managed to find time to sit while he was having breakfast in bed.