Watercolour with gouache over pencil and collage on two joined sheets of paper, 66 by 69 cm (26 by 27 ¼ ins)

Provenance: the estate of the artist; with Jennings Fine Art

The New Cake House in St James’s Park was opened by Harold Wilson’s wife Mary on 23^rd February 1970.  Its interior mural was constructed in ceramic tiles by Richard Parkinson from original designs by Barbara Jones. They depict the George III Jubilee celebrations held in the park in 1814 to commemorate one hundred years of the Hanoverian Dynasty. By the end of the century the structure came to be seen as outmoded (as well as being beset with structural issues) and was finally demolished (and the murals lost) to make way for the Inn in the Park (see Ruth Artmonsky,  A Snapper Up of Unconsidered Trifles: A Tribute to Barbara Jones, 2008, pp.109-110; also The Pagoda and Chinese Bridge, St. James’s Park, London, 1814, post on The Folly Flaneuse, November 15 2019).