RMS Britannia (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 10" x 13" (265mm x 330mm)
Date: c. 1975
Code: GreenBritannia
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.
The launch of RMS Britannia in 1840. The ship was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. The map top left shows that the ship served on the Atlantic route. Harry Green excelled in depicting the age of steam.
Originally printed in an issue of Look and Learn issue yet to be determined. Note slight glue residue where a text block was once pasted.
- Artist BiographyHarry Green (born 1920; UK)
A little-known artist, Harry Green contributed extensively to Look and Learn in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating a variety of subjects ranging from historical buildings to football. However, it was as a transport illustrator that he really made his mark in the 1980 with the series "Britain's Railway Wonders". Green also contributed illustrations to Speed & Power in the 1970s.
His book illustrations include Architecture (1969), Architecture: The Great Art of Building (1969), Discovery of Australia (1969) and Discovery of South America (1970), some of which were jointly illustrated by Gwen Green who was also a prolific children's educational book illustrator.
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