Angus McBride Illustration Art Gallery

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Alexandra David-Neel (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 12" x 12" (305mm x 305mm)
Description: An original painting used on the cover of Look and Learn 12th April 1975 depicting Impossible Journeys … Alexandra David-Neel (1868 - 1969) Oriental scholar and traveller in Tibet, born in Paris, France. She studied Sanskrit in Sri Lanka and India, then toured internationally as an opera singer. She continued to travel in Europe until 1911, when she returned to India, visiting the Dalai Lama in exile at Darjeeling and studying Tibetan Buddhism.
Expelled from India in 1916, she went to Burma, Japan, and Korea, arriving in Beijing in 1917. She returned to Tibet in 1934, but was forced to leave by the Japanese advance of 1944, and retired to Digne in France.

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Price: £350.00 ($700.00) (€455,00)

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The Tea Trade (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 27" x 9" (686mm x 229mm)
Description: An original painting used in the magazine World of Wonder to illustrate the story of the Tea Trade. Beautifully painted by McBride.

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Price: £450.00 ($900.00) (€585,00)

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The Flight of Rudolf Hess (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 15" x 20" (381mm x 508mm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: Original artwork for illustration on p11 of Look and Learn issue no 270 (18 March 1967). Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union (1941), he flew to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace, but was arrested. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life internment at Spandau Prison, where he died in 1987.

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Price: £175.00 ($350.00) (€227,50)

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In the Valley of the Nile (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 15" x 13" (381mm x 330mm)
Description: The story of mankind in the making, a series from Look and Learn. This original painting appeared in the magazine 5th November 1966.

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Price: £225.00 ($450.00) (€292,50)

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A Moi, la Legion (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 13" x 9" (330mm x 229mm)
Description: An original painting used in Look and Learn magazine 18th October 1980 to illustrate the story of the French Foreign Legion. Leroy Sanit Arnaud leads his men with the cry a Moi, la legion to take the city of Constantine. A dramatic and grueling scene.

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Price: £175.00 ($350.00) (€227,50)

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Haile Selassie Regains His Throne (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 14" x 12" (356mm x 305mm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: An original painting depicting a scene from the efforts of the Emperor Haile Selassie to regain his throne in Ethiopia. Used in Look and Learn 28th October 1972.

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Price: £135.00 ($270.00) (€175,50)

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The Pirates are Repelled (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 11" x 12" (279mm x 305mm)
Description: An original painting depicting a scene for the story of Midshipman Mann repelling pirates in 1827 off the Ionian islands. Used in Look and Learn 3rd March 1973.

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Price: £165.00 ($330.00) (€214,50)

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Brutus and Cassius (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 20" x 15" (508mm x 381mm)
Description: After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Octavian combined forces to defeat Brutus and Cassius. At the battle of Philippi the traitors were defeated and both Brutus and Cassius, shamed by their failure, committed suicide. An expertly drawn illustration for Look and Learn December 15th 1973.

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Price: £225.00 ($450.00) (€292,50)

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Neuschwanstein Castle (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 14" x 17" (356mm x 432mm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: Original art for World of Wonder magazine January 1971. A beautiful painting of Neuschwanstein castle built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the 19th century.

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Price: £295.00 ($590.00) (€383,50)

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Buffalo (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 14" x 17" (356mm x 432mm)
Description: TWO boards of original art used to tell the story of the African buffalo as printed in the magazine TV Wonderland 27th December 1975. Each panel in this two panel set is a work of art in itself.

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Price: £195.00 ($390.00) (€253,50)

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Marco Polo (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 14" x 8" (356mm x 203mm)
Description: An original painting used in the magazine Now I Know 10th February 1973 to illustrate the story of Marco Polo the great explorer setting out from Venice.

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Price: £150.00 ($300.00) (€195,00)

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Ben Johnson (1572-1637) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm)
Description: An original painting used in Look and Learn magazine 1973 depicting Ben Johnson (1572-1637), Renaissance dramatist, playwright, poet and friend of Shakespeare in the Mermaid tavern London.

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Price: £175.00 ($350.00) (€227,50)

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The Great Khan (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 13" x 7" (330mm x 178mm)
Description: An ORIGINAL painting used in the magazine Now I Know, February 1973, depicting Genghiz Khan passing through a village in his journey of conquest. McBride's superb painting, simple in style yet atmospheric.

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Price: £150.00 ($300.00) (€195,00)

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The Making of America - Pontiac (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 16" x 10" (406mm x 254mm)
Description: In the course of its history America has seen many struggles, but there has probably been none so saddening as the long Indian struggle for survival. Their last real chance of victory occurred in the State of Michigan.
To the right: Pontiac - the great Indian chief who marshalled his people in a massive stand against the British. Original artwork for the illustration on p26 of Look and Learn issue no. 412 (6 December 1969).

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Price: £125.00 ($250.00) (€162,50)

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Antony and Cleopatra (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 15" x 10" (381mm x 254mm)
Description: All the luxuries of the land were put in Antony's way to persuade him that there was no better life than to stay with Cleopatra. Original artwork for illustration on p4 of Look and Learn issue no 622 (15 December 1973).

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Price: £150.00 ($300.00) (€195,00)

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The Storm that Shook the World (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 11" x 9" (279mm x 229mm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: An ORIGINAL painting depicting Martin Luther for the magazine Look and Learn July 1968.

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Price: £95.00 ($190.00) (€123,50)

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1 (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 15" x 19" (381mm x 483mm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: A comic strip adaptation of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Original artwork for the illustrations on p11 of Look and Learn issue no. 314 (20 January 1968). Signed middle left.

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Price: £175.00 ($350.00) (€227,50)

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The Taming of the Shrew (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" is a wonderfully colourful play in which Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, marries the notorious, fiery-tempered Katherina, and finally 'tames' her. Original artwork for illustration on p25 of Look and Learn issue no. 610 (22 September 1973). Signed lower left.

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Price: £225.00 ($450.00) (€292,50)

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Sam Houston at San Jacinto (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 11" x 8" (28cm x 20cm)
Description: Sam Houston (1793 - 1863) was a colourful and controversial figure in Texas history. This painting show him at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21st 1836 where he led the Texas forces against Santa Ana to establish Texas independence after rallying the Texans following the fall of the Alamo and Goliad.

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Price: £125.00 ($250.00) (€162,50)

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The Earthquake at Quetta (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 27" x 11" (69cm x 28cm)
Signature: Signed by Artist
Description: An original watercolour used to illustrate the earthquake at Quetta on 31st May 1935 in the magazine World of Wonder 1970. Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan in Pakistan, the legendary stronghold of the western frontier, 1600 feet above sea level. The massive earthquake of 1935 destroyed the city and killed 40,000 souls.

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Price: £175.00 ($350.00) (€227,50)

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The Battle of Gettysburg (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 20" x 10" (51cm x 25cm)
Description: An original watercolour for the magazine series 'The Making of America' from Look and Learn 25th October 1969. The painting depicts General Pickett leading the heroic charge by Southerners on Cemetery Ridge at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1863, the greatest battle fought on American soil.

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Price: £175.00 ($350.00) (€227,50)