Nostradamus: The Gentle Doctor who Shocked the World (Original)

Artist: Richard Hook
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 19" (330mm x 490mm)
Date: 1971
Code: HookNostradamus

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Richard Hook.

Painted for issue 519 of the British Comic Look and Learn, this great impression of the prophet Nostradamus by Richard Hook shows the protagonist in the foreground and some of his many prophecies shown in the background: pastiches of the French Revolution, the Great Fire of London, The Plague, Napoleon and even the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Nostradamus (1503 - 1566) is fabled to have predicted the day of his own death, but was also buried with his last prediction - the date his body would be exhumed and reburied! He must have been a time traveller or had links to inter-dimensional friends surely?

The board has a crease along the lower left hand corner.

• Artist Biography
  Richard Hook (1938 - January 2010; UK)
  Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reigate College of Art. After national service with 1st Bn, Queen's Royal Regiment, he became art editor of the much-praised magazine Finding Out during the 1960s.
  
  He then went on to work as a freelance illustrator, earning an international reputation for his deep knowledge of Native American material culture.
  
  He provided many illustrations, predominantly scenes from British history and daily life, for Look and Learn magazine during the 1960s and 1970s and illustrated more than 50 titles for Osprey, contributing to these books for over 30 years. Sadly Richard passed away in January 2010.