Artist: T S La Fontaine (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 15" x 9" (380mm x 240mm)
Date: 1968
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by T S La Fontaine.

Ferdinand de Lesseps oversees work on the Suez Canal. The work was started in 1859 and it was ten years before the canal was opened, drastically reducing the time it took to travel from Europe to Asia.

River Across the Desert: Building the Suez Canal. Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 25 (7 July 1962).