The Butcher’s Shop by Eric Ravilious at the Towner Eastbourne, East Sussex.

The Butcher’s Shop was one of the first shops included as front matter for High Street. It was located at Sible Hedingham close to Castle Hedingham in Essex, where Ravilious moved in 1934. Sketching in his local butcher’s shop in 1935, Ravilious described how ‘the meat and rabbits and pigeons are very nice to draw This watercolour and pencil artwork shows the interior, whereas the lithograph at the beginning of High Street shows the front of the shop.

From Wikipedia:

Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Towner Eastbourne, East Sussex
Material: Watercolour & pencil on paper
Artist: Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
Date: c.1937

Image Details
Date: 1 July 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a Towner Eastbourne asset. This image cannot be licensed.