The Cock with Two Wives by George Ranstead
Third drawing in a series of six depicting the Aesops Fable of the man with two wives except acted out by chickens. In this picture, the two wives, each preferring a different colour of his feathers, set about pulling the offending ones out. 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
10527723
Media ID
46550921
Size
4333px x 2763px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Postcard drawing by George Ranstead
Date
circa 1916
