Bidspirit auction | E Finney, 'The Old Curiosity

E Finney, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' (Signed) - A mid-20th-century watercolor and gouache painting on paper by E Finney. The topographical composition depicts the historic London landmark, The Old Curiosity Shop, immortalised in the novel by Charles Dickens. The scene features the iconic timber-framed corner building to the right, with a hand-painted inscription on the facade reading The Old Curiosity Shop immortalised by Charles Dickens. The street scene includes a two-wheeled wooden hand-cart in the foreground and a horse-drawn carriage with figures in the middle distance. The artwork is signed and dated E FINNEY 1964 in the lower right corner. The painting is presented in a cream-coloured mount and housed in a gilt-composite frame with a beaded inner slip.