The Cock with Two Wives by George Ranstead
Second in a series of six drawings depicted the Aesop Fable about the man with two wives but acted out by chickens instead. In this picture, one wife objects to the husband's white feathers, and the objects to his black feathers. Drawn on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps. 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
10527722
Media ID
46548799
Size
4333px x 2755px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Postcard drawing by George Ranstead
Date
circa 1916
