What's the Recipe Today Jim? (Original)

Artist: F R Exell
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 6" x 8" (160mm x 200mm)
Date: 1973
Code: ExellCanteen

This is the unique original Gouache painting by F R Exell.

This history of the Crimean war emphasised how old fashioned the British Army had become due to not having campaigned since the days of Wellington at Waterloo.

This artwork however, makes a joke about the fact that towards the end of the campaign things had begun to improve. A famous chef was sent out to make better meals from Army rations.

Published in Look and Learn issue 618, 17th November 1973.

• Artist Biography
  F R Exell
  Not much is known about this accomplished book illustrator who appeared most active in the 1960s and 1970s. Exell illustrated the paperback editions of 'Moonfleet' by J Mead Falkner (1963 edition) and 'The Quarantine Child' by Geraldine Symons (published 1966) and illustrated the 'History's Heroes' feature for Look and Learn magazine in the 1970s.