A large watercolour painting, 30 inches by 20 inches, of the view from the lychgate at St Just in Roseland, looking down towards the church and St Just Creek. Signed "E E West" in red in the lower left corner, undated. Edgar E. West worked from circa 1857 to circa 1881, in Devon, Cornwall, the Channel Islands and Norway.
The church gardens are now well-known for their sub-tropical shrubs and trees. The two white houses just visible on the opposite hill in the painting are still there but have been obscured by trees.
Many of West's surviving paintings are of coastal scenes, Norwegian fjords and waterfalls. The assured handling of this painting, with its mix of watercolour and body colour, suggests a mid to late work.
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