Joseph Southall - Women at a Shop Counter
Joseph Southall - Women at a Shop Counter
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JOSEPH SOUTHALL, RWS, NEAC, RBSA
(1861-1944)
Women at the Counter at Warwick House Department Store, Birmingham
Inscribed, dated and signed with monogram; Warwick House / 26.vi.1912 / JES
Coloured chalks on buff
22 by 26 cm., 8 ¼ by 10 ¼ in.
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.
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Women at the Counter at Warwick House Department Store, BirminghamInscribed, dated and signed with monogram; Warwick House / 26.vi.1912 / JESColoured chalks on buff22 by 26 cm., 8 ¼ by 10 ¼ in. 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. ){kind=link}