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Alfred Leete (1882-1933), British graphic artist and cartoonist, hand drawn drawing approx. 6×4, affixed to 6×9.5-inch card and signed by him. VERY RARE. Leete’s career as a paid artist began in 1897, when the Daily Graphic accepted one of his drawings. Later, he contributed regularly to a number of magazines, including Punch, the Strand Magazine and Tatler. As a commercial artist he designed numerous posters and advertisements, especially in the 1910s and 1920s, for such brands as Rowntree’s, Guinness and Bovril, and his series of advertisements for the Underground Electric Railways Company (the London Underground) are very well known. Leete’s work as a wartime propagandist includes the poster for which he is most renowned, the Lord Kitchener poster design, which first appeared on the cover of the weekly magazine London Opinion on 5 September 1914. During the First World War Leete also drew two comics Schmidt the Spy and The Bosch Book, which ridiculed the German army.
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