Overall: 60cm (23.6in) x 89cm (35in)
Watercoulour and gouache on paper. An original illustration for Major A.E. Wardrop’s ‘Modern Pigsticking’ by Lionel Edwards RI. Signed lower original illustration for 'Modern Pigsticking' by Major A. E. Wardrop, published 1914. Signed and dated lower right ‘Lionel Edwards /1914’. Titled to mount ‘The Panther made a tremendous bound’. Image: 20cm x 33cm. Framed and glazed.
Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards (1878-1966) specialised in equestrian painting and sporting art. He provided illustrations for Country Life, The Sphere, The Graphic, Punch and numerous books. He trained Heatherley’s and at Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting. At nineteen he became a member of the London Sketch Club for commercial graphic artists working mainly for newspapers, periodicals, and books. During the First World War he served as a Remount Purchasing Officer alongside Cecil Aldin and Sir Alfred Munnings - ‘four solid years of nothing but horse.' He became a member of the Royal Institute in 1927 and was a regular exhibitor at Rowland Ward’s big game hunting taxidermy premises in Piccadilly.