The Search for Timbuktu (Original)

The Search for Timbuktu art by Neville Dear

The Search for Timbuktu (Original)


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Artist: Neville Dear
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Size: 7" x 6" (190mm x 160mm)
Date: 1973
Code: DearTimbuktu

This is the unique original Mixed Media art by Neville Dear.

Great Quests: The Long Road to Timbuktu. Explorers set out for Timbuktu in Africa whilst braving the tropical heat in clothing only suitable for Britain.

Explorers from Europe searched for a fantastic and wealthy city populated by an undiscovered race; only to find that Timbuktu was little more than a trading post on a slave route who's glory days were a long time in the past.

Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 593 (26 May 1973).
  • 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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