Acanthus ( F.Hoar)

With Acanthus we are impressed by the discrepancy between the narrative and the means used to achieve it - the Piranesian grandeur to achieve a domestic frisson. His graphic achievement, as you'd expect from a trained architect, was the creation of a dizzying sense of scale and sustained encrustation of detail. His best work was done for Punch .

Both of these images are from that magazine, and measure 16 x 23 cms. "Acanthus was an architect and, as a specialist, able to bring to PUNCH pages a high degree of specificity, one of the qualities most lacking in the modern period." R.G.G.Price, A History of Punch Collins London 1957.

LEFT June 7th 1950

RIGHT May 2nd 1951.