Signed with monogram and dated l.l.: 25.IV.32 / JES

Watercolour and pencil, 14 by 10 cm (5 ½ by 4 ins)

The following works are studies for Southall’s watercolour The Lion of St Mark, Venice now in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (acc.1933P462). Diary notes in a sketchbook from his trip to Venice in April 1932 reveal his taxing cultural schedule from the visit to the city, taking in trips to Scuola San Rocco, San Giorgio degli Schiavioni and San Giovanni in Bragora. On the day before the execution of the present sketch he visited the Accademia with express purpose of locating Bonifacio Veronese’s “Dives and Lazarus”, eventually finding it in the museum’s restoration room.