This small pencil drawing by Seweryn Leopold Obst, potentially a preparatory sketch for a larger work in oil, depicts a wooden house in Galicia, a region historically constituting part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and occupying parts of modern-day Poland and Ukraine, where the artist grew up and was educated. Obst's drawing of Galicia is recorded in The Catalogue and Survey of Activities, published by the Jewish Art and Literary Society Ben-Uri in 1930, as no. 37, although no further information on the artist or accession was recorded. Galicia, a royal province within Austria-Hungary after the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, had a mixed population of Ruthenians, Poles and Jews, the latter primarily Yiddish-speaking. Ben Uri artists of Galician-Jewish origin include Mark Gertler.