Inscribed, dated and signed with monogram: Warwick House/26.VI.1912/JES

Coloured chalks on buff paper, 22 by 26 cm (8 ½ by 10 ¼ ins)

Provenance: the artist’s cousin Isabel Harlock and thence by descent

Warwick House on Birmingham’s New Street was the city’s first department store and was completed to ornate Georgian-style designs in 1839. By the early twentieth century it housed the department store Marshall & Snelgrove. The building was extensively damaged by bombing in World War Two and rebuilt in the 1950s.