This album contains some examples of Lance Thackeray’s postcard designs.
Lot "Lance" Thackeray RBA (1869–1916) was an English illustrator, known especially for his comic sporting illustrations involving billiards, golf and cricket as well as for his many humorous postcards, mostly published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Born in Darlington to Thomas Thackeray and Selina Neish, Lance was a founding member of the London Sketch Club.
When he was in his 30s, he spent some winters in Egypt and produced sketches which he collected in two books: The Light Side of Egypt (1908) (cover shown right), which focussed attention on the humorous behaviour of other foreign visitors, and The People of Egypt (1910), which showed images of local people - examples of these latter sketches, as they appear on postcards, are below.
Thackeray drew the designs for over 950 postcard prints, mostly comic, and made a great number of illustrations for the humorous press in England. Shortly after the beginning of World War I, despite being over 40, he volunteered for the Artists Rifles Regiment in 1915. However, he never saw action and died in Brighton on 10th August 1916 (aged 52) of pernicious anaemia.
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