C. F. Tunnicliffe

An album of 50 tea cards issued by the Brooke Bond Co. Includes descriptive text and one card each for: Gorilla, Mantled Baboon, Chimpanzee, Mandriil, Pata Monkey, Colobus Monkey, Syke's Monkey, Bushy-tailed Galago, Ring-tailed Lemur, Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, Caracal, Genet, Serval, Banded Mongoose, Zorilla, Ratel, Porcupine, Jumping Hare, Ground Squirrel, Rock Hyrax, Fennec Fox, Spotted Hyena, Black-backed Jackal, African Hunting Dog, Buffalo, Barbary Sheep, Zebra, Brindled Gnu (or Wildebeest), Coke's Hartebeest, Giraffe, Okapi, Bongo, Eland, Kudu, Sable Antelope, Oryx, Impal, Thompson's Gazelle, Grant's Gazelle, Klipspringer, Hippopotamous, Elephant, Black Rhinoceros, Wart Hog, Red-River Hog, Aardvark, Giant Pangolin and Nile Crocodile.

Catalogue of the prints of Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RA (1901-1979), who worked in numerous media, his subject matter of British birds and other fauna was always depicted, unusually for the time, in their natural habitat. Renowned as the illustrator of the 1932 edition of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter and numerous Brooke Bond tea cards, Tunnicliffe was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1944 and a Royal Academician in 1954.