Natives Watching the Events. Animal Sailing Regatta. Chromolithograph c1911.

by G.H. Thompson

Yacht Race antique print. Lions, Bears, Monkeys, Fox... watching the events.

Original colour-printed lithograph by G.H. Thompson for The Regatta in Animal Land by Clifton Bingham published circa 1911 by Ernest Nister of London and E.P. Dutton of New York. This is a wonderful colourful antique print with a lighthouse on the headland above sailing ships festooned with flags, racing yachts, and animals with binoculars.

German publisher, Ernest Nister, printed lithographic books, first in Germany and then in London from 1888. He specialized in high quality printing for children's books around the turn of the century and the wonderful character artist, G.H. Thompson began doing watercolours for him. Thompson went on to lithograph personified animals with human characteristics, in human situations, and he even wrote early children's books himself. Thompson's attention to fashions of the day and the individuality and attitude of each animal is brilliantly and amusingly portrayed.

Image size of this antique print is 185 x 245mm (approx. 7 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches). Page size is 225 x 375mm.