A Steep Street

The present view was one which the artist painted and drew several times, intrigued as he often was by an ordinary and unassuming street, the steep rise over the brow of the hill and spatial awareness created by the tiny figures against the expanse of the foreground, emphasising the curious low vantage point. A pencil drawing entitled In Clitheroe, circa 1930, comprising several sketches of a street and inscribed with copious colour notes by the artist is in the collection of the City of Salford (see J. Sandling and M. Leber, L.S. Lowry, Oxford, 1987, p. 129), and an oil painting Street Scene, Clitheroe, dated 1963 was sold Christie's London 5 March 1999, lot 182 (£122,500).

Margaret Hulme was the daughter of Alfred Hulme, the Lowry family's solicitor.