Artist: Clive Uptton (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Acid-free Board
Size: 14" x 21" (365mm x 530mm)
Date: 1966

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Clive Uptton.

This is an original illustration by the great Clive Uptton of The Loch Ness Monster, featured in the Treasure Magazine published by Fleetway (4/6/1966).

The Loch Ness Monster is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water.

Treasure was a British educational magazine for young children published by Fleetway Publications which ran for 418 issues published between 19 January 1963 and 16 January 1971

Clive Uptton was a widely regarded British illustrator and painter of landscapes and portraits. He was born in Islington, London, the son of Clive Upton, who worked for Swain's, the engravers, as a touch-up artist and later for the Daily Mail newspaper.