Artist: Angus McBride Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 21" x 14" (540mm x 360mm) Date: 1980 Signature: Signed by artist lower right Code: McBrideShipwreckedLL
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Angus McBride.
In October 1859, after making a speedy and safe journey from Melbourne - just hours away from her destination of Liverpool - the Royal Charter sank in a storm off Anglesey.
Captain Taylor, who the passengers were going to honour on arrival with a special testimonial, drowned along with most of the passengers and crew.
Original Angus McBride artwork from The Look and Learn Book 1981. Please note glue stain and writing to the right hand side. This is reflected in the price.
Angus McBride (1931 - 2007; UK & South Africa) Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical and fantasy illustrators, and contributed to numerous books, magazines and articles, including the classic Look & Learn, JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents, but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after National Service, emigrated to South Africa where he lived for several years, before relocating to Ireland before his sad demise in 2007.
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