Inscribed on verso in white chalk, top edge, towards left, over paper tape and board: "3" (circled); inscribed on verso in white chalk top edge, towards right, partially covered by paper tape: "AK" (circled); inscribed on verso in white chalk top edge, towards right, partially covered by paper label, white chalk: "15" (circled); on a paper label printed in blue and typewritten black ink, over paper tape and chalk inscription, top right corner, verso: "CHRISTOPHER HULL GALLERY | 17 Motcomb Street, London, SW1 | ALAN LOWNDES, 1920-1976 | From Mersey Bridge, 1968 | oil on board, 22” x 30” | FFA No 905 | Coll: Mrs Jack L Pritzker, 1984"; charcoal inscription in the center, verso: "FROM MERSEY BRIDGE (underlined) | 30 x 22 | Halsetown March 1968"; white chalk inscription, running along left edge from bottom to top, verso: "215 XE"; in black paint, stenciled, to the right: "215 XE"; chalk inscription, running top to bottom, right of center, verso: "23-5-75"; chalk inscription, running top to bottom, right of center: "151(2)".
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
Ian Collins, Modernism and memory : Rhoda Pritzker and the art of collecting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 44. 46, 206, fig. 19, 206 fig., N6768 .M635 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA)