Snaffles Print, WW1 Military Print, The 'D.R.'

Snaffles Print, WW1 Military Print, The 'D.R.'

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Vintage Snaffles WWI Military Print, The D.R.
A good hand coloured Snaffles WWI military print 'The D.R.'. The main center colour-piece image is mounted onto the printed remarque board and shows a despatch rider on a motor cycle racing past two dead riders in the road, a sign saying "Do not loiter here, this spot is DANGEROUS", a wayside shrine with Jesus on the cross and with the caption 'Remarkable close to the old bus's 'ead to let the stuff go by. (Rudyard Kipling with the artist's apologies).'. In the bottom margin is a remarque of the despatch rider falling off his motor bike.

This Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884 - 1967) picture is in good original condition, it has the Snaffles blindstamp (a bridle bit) bottom right hand corner and is framed in original black frame. Snaffles spent the First World War period as a special artist in France.

Dimensions:

Height 30.5 cm / 12 "
Width 28.5 cm / 11 "
Framed height 48.5 cm / 19 14"
Framed width 43 cm / 17"
Framed depth 1 cm / "
Period

1900-1949

Year

Circa 1915

Medium

Lithograph

Country

United Kingdom

Condition

Lithograph in good condition, slight staining. Frame sound, clean, with a few surface scratches.

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