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  • Twenty-six drawings, designs for posters, book illustrations, covers and cartoons by the cartoonist Fougasse
  • Cartoon for Punch showing a porter balancing boxes on his head

Fougasse

Cartoon for Punch showing a porter balancing boxes on his head

[c.1945]

© Reproduced by kind permission of the Estate of C.K. Bird

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Created by
Fougasse 1887–1965
Title
Cartoon for Punch showing a porter balancing boxes on his head
Date
[c.1945]
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
319 × 154 mm
Description
Signed top left. Published in Punch magazine, 5 September 1945, Vol. CCIX, p.201.
Format
Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
The drawings were presented to the Tate Gallery Archive in 1977 by the artist's widow, Mrs C.K. Bird.
Reference
TGA 7712/18

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  • Twenty-six drawings, designs for posters, book illustrations, covers and cartoons by the cartoonist Fougasse TGA 7712 (26)
    • Cartoon for Punch showing a porter balancing boxes on his head TGA 7712/18
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