Signed l.l.: Rex Vicat Cole and signed and inscribed with title on a label on the reverse

Oil on panel

51 by 35 cm., 21 by 14 in.

Exhibited: Robert Dunthorne, Rembrandt Gallery, Vigo Street, London Old and New, pictures by Rex Vicat Cole, 1935, no.69; Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery, The Cole Family, Painters of the English Landscape, 1838-1975,1988 no.126

Literature: T.J.Barringer, The Cole Family: Painters of the English Landscape 1838-1975, Portsmouth City Museums 1988, illustrated p.160, p.163 (no.126)

The Georgian passageway, Rupert Court, is much the same today, its shops and bars having had various incarnations as part of Soho’s colourful nightlife and through being on the fringe of Chinatown. It was also immortalised in a famous photograph of The Beatles taken by Dezo Hoffman in 1963.