Lithograph, 1935

435 by 287 mm (17 by 11 ¼ ins)

An Illustration for Left Review

Literature: Frances Carey & Antony Griffiths, Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960, BMP 1990, no.119.

The writer TH Wintringham reviewing Social Scene (the exhibition that launched the Artist’s International Association in 1933) in Left Review said of Boswell '… he succeeds in his street scenes by the solid, normal, seen individuals that make up his groups, their attitudes, the caps they wear as if they had been born in them. And those who saw the first issue of the Left Review will realise; the man can draw'.

Sal Shuel writes of the present lithograph: “a soldier and his pregnant wife. In 1935 a private in the army was paid a shilling a day. He also got meals, accommodation and health care and his family received benefits but it wasn’t a living wage.”