Tax Collectors Vainly Looking for William Shakespeare (Signed) (Original)

Tax Collectors Vainly Looking for William Shakespeare art by Neville Dear

Tax Collectors Vainly Looking for William Shakespeare (Signed) (Original)


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Artist: Neville Dear
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 13" x 11" (330mm x 280mm)
Date: 1964
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: DearShakespeareLL

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Neville Dear.

This delightful vignette, from Look and Learn no. 107, 1st February 1964, shows a group of Tudor tax collectors vainly hammering on the playwright William Shakespeare's door.

Unbeknownst to them Shakespeare had moved across the Thames to live in Southwark. Shakespeare was paid around ?6 per play, somewhere in the region of ?1,800 today.
  • Artist Biography
    Neville Dear; UK
    A prolific artist for Look and Learn, illustrating a wide variety of historical subjects and various series including 'Disasters That Shook the World' (1963), 'By the Rivers of Babylon' (1964), 'They Made Headlines' (1964), 'Epic Stories of the Iron Road' (1965) and others. In 1949, Dear and two other students from the Royal College of Art were commissioned to decorate the walls of the children's section of the Chelsea Public Library.

    In the 1950s he began producing illustrations for William Collins, including work for Collins' Magazine, Collins Boys' Annual and books, including Showell Styles' 'Tiger Patrol' series.

    As well as his magazine illustrations for Look and Learn, Ranger, Argosy, Picture Post and others, Dear also worked for Oxford University Press, Wheaton, Hodder & Stoughton, Corgi, and Eyre Methuen. With others he illustrated The Hamlyn Bible for Children (1974) and he was a regular illustrator for Reader's Digest's condensed books.
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