Artist: Ferdinando Tacconi Medium: Watercolour on Board Size: 10" x 13" (255mm x 325mm) Date: c. 1963 Code: TacconiMaurtaniaLL
This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Ferdinando Tacconi.
This is a lovely painting of the Cunard ship The Mauretania depicted soon after her launch in 1907. Between 1909 and 1929 the ship held the Blue Riband prize for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York in both Easterly and Westerly directions.
The inset pictures show an earlier liner and life aboard the ship.
Painted for an as yet unidentified issue of Look and Learn magazine by Ferdinando Tacconi.
Ferdinando Tacconi (1922 - 11 May 2006; Milan, Italy) Of all the European artists to contribute to British comics in the 1950s and '60s, two stand out as being the most popular: Jesus Blasco and Ferdinando Tacconi. Although Tacconi became known as a really first-rate War strip artist, it was for his superb rendition of the famous Charles Chilton radio serial, Journey Into Space in Express Weekly (in which all the main characters were based on actual likeness of the radio actors) which first brought him to prominence here.
Born in Milan, Tacconi has had two great interests in life, both of which he has been able to indulge throughout his career: drawing and aeroplanes. His first comic strip, published in 1947, was not typical of the work he was to pursue later, being a story of Morgan il Pirata. In the mid '50s, Tacconi began working for British comics. Besides his work for Express Weekly, he drew the war strips, War Eagle and Commando One for Comet and Battler Britton for Sun as well as scores of War libraries. His work was wide-ranging and included a great amount of full colour work, both strips and covers, for Look and Learn. His most famous European strip is Gli Aristocratici ("The Gentlemen") which features a group of bowler-hatted English crime fighters in London's "Swinging Sixties". In 1989, he wrote and drew, together with Gino D'Antonio, an eight volume series of books on the Second World War. Tacconi continues to produce high quality artwork for the adult comics market in Italy.
Artist: John S SmithMedium: Gouache on BoardSize: 20" x 15" (520mm x 380mm)Date: 1981Signature: Signed by artist bottom rightCode: SmithJSCunLLThis i...
Artist: John S SmithMedium: Pen & Ink Wash on BoardSize: 11" x 15" (290mm x 380mm)Date: 1976Code: SmithJSQueenMaryLLThis is the unique original Pen & ...
Artist: Harry GreenMedium: Gouache on BoardSize: 10" x 13" (265mm x 330mm)Date: c. 1975Code: GreenBritanniaThis is the unique original Gouache paintin...