A Potato By Any Other Name (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Robert Wilson Matthews
Medium: Pen & Ink on Acid-free Paper
Size: 7" x 5" (170mm x 135mm)
Date: 1925
Signature: Initialled by the artist in ink, top right corner
Code: MatthewsRW26

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Robert Wilson Matthews.

This illustration from 'A Child's History Of England' depicts Louis XVI being handed a potato flower. The King often wore a potato flower in his buttonhole with his whole court following his example. It was to signify the value of the Colombian exchange and the import of potatoes from Peru.

Robert Wilson Matthews born in Edinburgh in 1880 began as an illustrator in the early 20th century. An alumni of The Edinburgh College of Art he is best known for his illustrations in H.W. Meikle's 'Story Of England' (Oliver & Boyd) and the illustrated works of Alexandre Dumas (Collins Clear Press). Matthews took a medical commission circa 1928 and was one of the most well respected medical illustrators of the 20th century.

• Artist Biography
  Robert Wilson Matthews (1880 or 1885 - ?1940; Edinburgh, Scotland)
  Robert Wilson Matthews born in Edinburgh in 1880 (some sources say 1895) and began as an illustrator in the early 20th century. An alumni of The Edinburgh College of Art he is best known for his illustrations in H.W. Meikle's 'Story Of England' (Oliver & Boyd) and the illustrated works of Alexandre Dumas (Collins Clear Press).
  
  Matthews took a medical commission circa 1928 and was one of the most well respected medical illustrators of the 20th Century.
  
  He usually signed his work with his initials R.W.M.