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Full page advert from The Illustrated London News March 3rd 1900, page #301
Image of gentleman on skates bringing a hot chocolate to his lady. In background, canteen lady with large kettle of Hot Chocolate.
Artist monogram LR: 'Cecil Aldin 99'.
On back, text and photo about Maxim Automatic Gun (Machine gun). Advertising for Mappins & Webb sterling silver.
Top of page bit creased and couple small tears.
39.5 x 27.5 cm
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, (1870 –1935), was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds, and many of his pictures illustrated hunting. Aldin's early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech.
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