This picture is from the collection of Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery

A Prospect of Worcester from the East is an oil painting on canvas created around 1750 and attributed to John Harris the Younger (1720-1755).

Worcester City Museums acquired this painting in 1987 with the support of ArtFund.

The picture depicts an accurate view of Worcester in the mid-18th century, a period of rebuilding and civic pride.

It shows the newly built St Andrews and St Nicholas churches, the Malvern Hills, the cathedral and castle, as well as the sails of trows traveling up and down the river.

The shape of the garden can be found on the 1751 Doherty map of Claines which tells us that it was painted from a building called The Redhouse.

It stood on the site of present day Lansdowne Crescent.

During the Civil War it is thought that the Redhouse was the headquarters of Cromwell’s besieging Parliamentarian army and that the city’s surrender was signed there.

William and Margaret Browning, originally landowners from Martley, lived at the Redhouse with their daughters in 1750 and may have commissioned the painting.

From 1873 the house was known as Marlbank and was the last home of Sir Edward Elgar, where he composed and recorded some of his later works before he died in 1934.

Public outcry was not enough to prevent the demolition of the house in 1969 to make way for three blocks of flats now known as Elgar Court.

You can see this beautifully captured moment of Worcester's history on display in the Divided Loyalties exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum on until October 29th.

For more information visit www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk

Do you like in Elgar Court? Take a photo from your window of the same view today. Send to jw@worcesternews.co.uk