PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF HUGH CRONYN (LOTS 61-66)
HUGH CRONYN (1905-1996)
Hammersmith Mall
signed and dated HUGH/CRONYN/37 (lower right), signed again and titled (on an artist label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas, unframed
51 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in)

PROVENANCE:
Artist's Estate

The present work depicts the historic easterly end of Upper Mall, Hammersmith, leading to Dove’s Passage and its eponymous pub. Originally opened as a coffee house in the 18th century, The Dove is recognisable to the right of the composition from its cream pitched gable end, punctuated by a single window. To its right is 21 Upper Mall where the poet George Rostrevor Hamilton was living at the time. To its immediate left, at the end of Dove’s passage is 15 Upper Mall which once housed Doves Press, run by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, and associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and William Morris, who had lived nearby at Kelmscott House. On the left of the composition are numbers 22, 20 (tucked away) and 18 Upper Mall.