War Elephant (Original)

Artist: William Francis Marshall
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 8" x 12" (200mm x 310mm)
Date: 1974
Code: MarshallElephant

This is the unique original Gouache painting by William Francis Marshall.

Maddened with pain the elephant floundered into the deep waters of the river.

An illustration used in the feature The Great Moghuls: A King of Straw that appeared in Look and Learn issue 645, 25th May 1974.

• Artist Biography

  William Francis Marshall (1901 - 1980)
  Francis Marshall studied at Slade before entering the world of advertising illustration. In 1928 he began a 10-year relationship with Condé Nast, drawing for Vogue. In 1959 he wrote a successful book on drawing entitled Magazine Illustration.