The Cock with Two Wives by George Ranstead
Final part of a set of pictures depicting Aesops Fable of the man with two wives (but with chickens)! The cockerel, after being subjected to weeks of each wife plucking out feathers in her choice of colour is now entirely bald. Drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War. Ranstead was one of many soldiers of WWI who took up drawing as a hobby. His subjects range from wartime humour to pictures of pretty girls and are clearly influenced by images in the illustrated magazines of the period
Picture No
10527728
Media ID
45655455
Size
4318px x 2750px
(1.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Postcard drawing by George Ranstead
Date
circa 1916
