The Chateau de Chillon (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 9" x 8" (230mm x 210mm)
Date: 1979
Code: GreenChillon
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.
Chateau of Chillon. For more than 700 years, the Chateau de Chillon has watched over Lake Geneva and the trade route to Rome. It was immortalised by the English poet Lord Byron in his poem The Prisoner of Chillon.
Published in Look and Learn issue 924, 6th October 1979.
- Artist Biography
Harry 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.
Source: From biographical notes by Steve Holland

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