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Joshua Charles Armitage
Mr Punch - How to Grow Tobacco - Original ink 20th Century British illustration

c.1950

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“IONICUS” JOSHUA CHARLES ARMITAGE (1913-1998) Mr Punch – How to Grow Tobacco Pen and ink heightened with white, unframed 5.5 by 10 cm., 2 ¼ by 4 in. (mount size 25.5 by 25.5 cm., 10 by 10 in.) Joshua Charles Armitage was a popular 20th century illustrator and cartoonist working for many magazine and producing numerous book illustrations and cover designs. He was born in Hoylake, Cheshire and studied at Liverpool School of Art. He took the pen name Ionicus for his first cartoon, which was published in Punch, 24 March 1944. Over the following 40 years he contributed 358 drawings to the magazine. As a book illustrator he work on over 50 Wodehouse titles.
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