Sailing Regatta in Animal Land: Rounding the Buoy. c1911

by G.H. Thompson

Seal and Bears in Sailing Race, antique print.

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 delightful image for anyone interested in the fun of sailing.

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.