Jack B. Yeats
, Irish, 1871-1957
Title
Taxi-boats - A Humane PropositionDatePublished 27 September 1911
MediumInk and traces of graphite underdrawing on board
Dimensions
19.1 x 26.5 cm
Signedlower right (in ink, using the pseudonym): W. BIRD
Credit LinePurchased, 2004
Object numberNGI.2008.1.38
Inscriptionunder illustration (in ink, with caption): Taxi-boats. A humane proposition (Taxi boats for the seaside a humane idea) The attention of the passengers is so much absorbed with watching the eight pences mounting up that way (do not think of the wobbling of the waves) forget to be sea sick. [Text in brackets corssed out in graphite]on verso (in coloured pencil): 4 in wide urgent and initialled: FHT [F.H.Townsend]