Lawson Wood - The First Bicycle. 1905 - Sold - Prehistoric Dinosaur cartoon

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Artist: Lawson Wood (1878 – 1957)
Title: The First Bicycle. 1905
Medium: Watercolour & pencil on paper
Size: Image size 495mm x 348mm; frame size 640mm x 490mm
Oak framed & glazed
Signed: ‘Lawson Wood. 1905’ on bottom right of image. Also ‘The First Bicycle’ on the bottom left of image.
Notes: This is an earlier work than the similar painting published in the 1907 book “Prehistoric Proverbs. Quaint Ways in Quaint Days; a Series of 12 Water-Colour Drawings” By Lawson Wood, published by Collier & Co., London, 1907.

Lawson Wood was an accomplished cartoonist, illustrator and poster designer. He gained great popularity with his humorous illustrations of dinosaurs and monkeys.