The Invention of Crisps (Original)
The Invention of Crisps (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 15" x 21" (380mm x 540mm)
Date: 1975
Code: KeayCrispsLL
This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Jack Keay.
Two illustrations, the first depicting the first crisps ever made, by Chef George Crum (1822-1914) of the Moon's Lake House, Saratoga Springs, New York, in August 1853.
A diner complained that his French Fries (chips) were too thick. Angry, Crum decided to slice potatoes as thinly as possible and fried the resulting wafers of potato.
Inadvertently, Crum had invented crisps.
The second picture shows a child eating crisps.
This is the original artwork with a curious subject matter from Look and Learn no. 696, 17th May 1975.
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- Artist BiographyJack "John" Edwin Keay (10 May 1907 - 1999; King's Norton, UK)
Artist who contributed a variety of illustrations and covers to Look and Learn. When he signed his work, it was usually as “Jack Keay”. Jack Keay was born in King's Norton, Worcestershire, on 10 May 1907. Little is known about Keay's career, but he was a popular book cover artist who worked for Pan, Panther, Hutchinson, Fontana and Four Square in the 1957-62 period.
Keay illustrated a number of books in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Change of Life by Muriel E. Landau (1971), Gunfighters of the Wild West by Eric Inglefield (1978), American Civil War by Philip Clark (1988), American War of Independence by Philip Clark (1988) and Viking Explorers by Rupert Matthews (1989). He died in Hounslow, London, in 1999, aged 92.
Jack Keay is not to be mistaken for John R. Keay (qv) who also contributed to Look and Learn.
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