Ordered a new car six years ago, and it's just arrived. Not quite the model I specified ...

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Ordered a new car six years ago, and it's just arrived. Not quite the model I specified ...

Rowland Emett (1906-1990)

Price

£3,250

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title

Medium

Ink with bodycolour

Dimensions

11 x 12 ¾ inches

Illustrated

Punch, 25 October 1950, Page 396;
Rowland Emett, The Forgotten Tramcar (and other drawings), London: Faber & Faber, 1952;
The Best Cartoons from Punch, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952, [unpaginated];
Alarms & Excursions and other Transports transfixed by Emett, London: John Murray, 1977

Exhibited

'Marvellous Machines: The Wonderful World of Rowland Emett', Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, May-September 2014;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 250

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