300 Years of Passenger Ships (Original)

300 Years of Passenger Ships art by Ferdinando Tacconi

300 Years of Passenger Ships (Original)


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Artist: Ferdinando Tacconi
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 16" x 7" (400mm x 180mm)
Date: c. 1969
Code: TacconiShipLife

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Ferdinando Tacconi.

From Then Until Now - Changes in daily life on board an ocean going ship; from the 17th to the 20th century - 300 years of progress.

Originally published in Treasure, 21st November probably about 1969.
A series of wonderfully detailed miniature paintings by a master of illustration.
  • Artist Biography
    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.

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