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‘Fougasse’ Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird poster

£650

Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (1887 - 1965)

Careless Talk Costs Lives (circa 1940)
Lithographic poster 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) "Strictly between these four walls" - here, in the painting hanging behind two gossiping men in gentleman's club, hide Mussolini and Hitler. Fougasse reminds us that we ought not to discuss secrets which could be of use to them. Fougasse was a British cartoonist. He was art editor of Punch between 1937 and 1949, and subsequently editor until 1953. He is best known for his ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ series of posters, and the other posters for the Ministry of Information and London Transport. As the Second World War progressed, the Ministry of Information’s poster campaign had become less and less effective. There were posters instructing the population to save old clothes for rags, turn off the lights, save food, dig for victory, watch out for spies, and keep calm and carry on. With this instruction overload, the population had ceased paying attention to the posters. Fougasse noticed this, and offered his services unpaid to the Ministry of Information, with a view to bringing a touch of humour to the posters. His amusing designs with pithy captions, reminiscent of newspaper cartoons, helped to get the Ministry's messages across in a novel way.

Fougasse's distinctive poster style, with the red border, was subsequently adopted by other Ministry artists.

Condition: good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist.

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‘Eton College, a scholar on the steps’ oil painting

£6,150

'Eton College, a scholar on the steps' (early 20th century)
Oil on canvas 62 x 49 One of our favourite paintings. A lone scholar descends the Chapel steps, a human focal point in an oil painting primarily concerned with the College's fine architecture. A blur of green and red sprouts at the bottom of the wall - flowers. In a handsome period hardwood frame. Condition: very good.

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‘BOOM’ ski-batics in Colorado poster, c.1970 Skiing USA

£395

'BOOM' skibatics in Colorado Poster (c.1970)
67 x 53 cm Original Vintage Poster Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Features a photograph of acrobatic skier by Steve Knowlton. Direct from the surplus stock of the printers, LooArt Press, which closed in the early 1970s. In generally excellent condition.

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‘Bisto for all Meat Dishes’ original vintage poster circa 1950

£950

'Bisto for all Meat Dishes'
Original vintage poster 55 x 202 cm This original vintage poster is an excellent opportunity to acquire a piece of British advertising history. Bisto is an instantly recognisable brand today, and has been throughout the 20th century; the catchphrase on the poster here, "Bisto for all meat dishes" was used in the 1950s. The first Bisto product, in 1908, was a meat-flavoured gravy powder which rapidly became a bestseller in the UK. It was added to gravies to thicken them and give a richer taste and aroma. Invented by Messrs Roberts & Patterson, it was named "Bisto" because it "Browns, Seasons and Thickens in One". As of 2005, Bisto Gravy Granules had a British market share of over 70%. Nearly all British grocery outlets stock a Bisto product.

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‘Berks and Bucks’ Vanity Fair huntsman cartoon

£295

Roland "Ao" / "Armadillo" L'Estrange for Vanity Fair Magazine 'Berks and Bucks': Sir Robert Rodney Wilmot
5 November 1903 Lithograph 21 x 37 cm Depicting Sir Robert Rodney Wilmot, in red hunting clothes and whip, of the Berks & Bucks Draghounds at their opening meet. Wilmot was educated at Eton and Oxford, and his hobbies famously included croquet. The Vanity Fair magazine of 1868 to 1914 was subtitled 'A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares'. Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, who aimed to expose the contemporary vanities of Victorian society, it featured regular full-page, colour lithographs of famous (or infamous) contemporary figures. It is for these caricatures that the original Vanity Fair is best known today. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Mounted to board, some age toning.

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“Spy”: Vanity Fair hunting cartoon ‘MFH with a sense of humour’

£295

Sir Leslie 'Spy' Ward for Vanity Fair Magazine

An MFH with a sense of humour (1905)
Lithograph 36 x 21 cm Published in Vanity Fair on 23rd November 1905. The 'MFH with a sense of humour' depicted here is Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1869 - 1923), British peer, Conservative politician, and Master of Foxhounds. Verney was the son of Colonel Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke and Geraldine Smith-Barry, and was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. The historian George Dangerfield described Verney as "a genial and sporting young peer, whose face bore a pleasing resemblance to the horse. ... He had quite a gift for writing, thought clearly, and was not more than two hundred years behind his time." He wrote a book on foxhunting called "Hunting the Fox", which was published in 1921 and remains an acclaimed text on the sport today. Verney represented Rugby, Warwickshire, as an MP from 1895–1900. In 1902 he succeeded his father as 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke. Condition: very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.

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