The Story of France - Vercingetorix (Original)

The Story of France - Vercingetorix art by Jack Keay
The Story of France - Vercingetorix art by Jack Keay

The Story of France - Vercingetorix (Original)

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Artist: Jack Keay
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 6" x 8" (150mm x 200mm)
Date: 1974
Code: KeayTroops

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Jack Keay.

Vercingetorix inspects his troops in the mountains of central France. From the long running Look and Learn historical series The Story of France, This in fact was from the first episode published in Look and Learn issue 663, 28th September 1974. The man who defied mighty Caesar. The mighty Caesar in question was Julius. The village in the background has been burned by Vercingetorix's troops so as to provide no place of rest for the Roman troops.
  • Artist Biography
    Jack "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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