'Hansom Cab, All Saints, London', 1910, (detail), by Adolphe Valette.

Cover of an old vinyl Classical music series (Classics For Pleasure) sponsored by the tobacco firm Lambert & Butler; this particular record being Edward Elgar’s Symphony No.1, by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vernon Handley, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, in 1979.

 

Pierre Adolphe Valette 1876–1942, French Impressionist painter now remembered as L. S. Lowry’s tutor.

 

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