This 1928 drawing by Robert Pilot shows a winter cab stand in Quebec City. Executed in black charcoal with white chalk highlights on brown-toned paper, the work uses the paper itself as the middle value, creating a strong contrast between dark architectural forms and bright passages of snow.

The central subject is a small cab-stand shelter with a steep hipped roof, set into a snowy street below a sloping hillside. Pilot defines the roof, snowbanks, road, and distant buildings with quick, confident strokes. The white chalk marks establish the winter setting immediately, catching the snow on the rooflines, street edges, and banks around the shelter.

The composition is urban and atmospheric. Utility poles, overhead wires, hillside structures, and the dark form of a waiting cab at the right place the scene firmly in old Quebec. Pilot avoids unnecessary detail, instead using rapid, expressive drawing to capture the cold, movement, and uneven terrain of the city in winter.

The drawing is signed and dated “R. Pilot / 28” at the lower right. An inscription along the lower margin identifies the subject as a Quebec cab stand.