EXTRACTS: Drawing from History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania © The Book Palace (340 PAGES in Full edition)

Drawing from History 216 Top: Sunday work in the Tunnel of the Great Main Line outside London – gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. The Sphere , 4 August 1914. Above left: “The Embarrassing Statement”, from an unidentified Italian magazine. Above right: An advertisement from Punch magazine, 11 April 1934.