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Bert Thomas (1883 - 1966)

Naval images of our Allies, circa 1914

SKU: 5983
Signed in ink
Lithograph
57 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (146 x 14 cm)

Size:
Height – 146cm
Width – 14cm

DESCRIPTION

Presentation:
framed
This vertical panorama shows an airship, aircraft, armoured car, and naval gun team together with an assortment of naval troops of British, French, Belgian and Russian nationalisities.  A pair to this print showing aircraft, airship, Lancers, Royal Field Artillery and an assortment of troops of British, Belgian, French, Russian and Indian nationalities is in the National Army Museum.
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THE ARTIST

Bert Thomas
Bert
Thomas
1883 - 1966
Herbert Samuel “Bert” Thomas (1883-1966) was the British artist who created the famous First World War cartoon entitled ‘Arf a mo’ Kaiser.
Thomas, who was born in Newport, Gwent in 1883, served an apprentice as a commercial metal engraver, specialising in the design of brass door plates.
As a sideline Thomas drew cartoons, many of which were accepted for publication by The Bystander, The Graphic and the prestigious Punch magazine in the pre-war years.
With the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 Thomas enlisted with the Artists’ Rifles alongside other notable illustrators including Paul Nash.  It was during this time that Thomas drew his most famous cartoon of a British private lighting his pipe with the caption ‘Arf a mo’ Kaiser, the purpose of which was to raise funds to supply tobacco and cigarettes to front-line soldiers.
It succeeded admirably, raising almost £250,000.  Such was the cartoon’s popularity that it was re-used during the Second World War, re-titled ‘Arf a mo’ ‘itler.
Thomas’s published cartoon books include Red and Black: A Book of Drawings (1928), Fun at the Seaside (1944) and A Trip on a Barge (1947).  He also sketched portraits in the 1930s and 1940s, which included Sir Oswald Mosley and Nancy Astor.
He died in 1966.

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Bert Thomas (1883 - 1966)
Naval images of our Allies, circa 1914