"The Gent in Ratcatcher" signed print by Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884–1967) 

"The Gent in Ratcatcher" 
Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884–1967) 
Colour photolithograph, published 1922
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right 
Framed

Measures:-
42 cm x 39 cm (framed)

Provenance:-
Label verso for the art dealers Mawson, Swan and Morgan of Grey Street, Newcastle-On-Tyne.

An amusing hunting scene from the 1920's by "Snaffles" which depicts a gentleman in a tweed jacket and bowler hat pausing, whip in hand, to smoke a pipe whilst out riding in the field. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist and with a printed vignette of a groom brushing a horse. Printed annotation "I have my man cleaning my 'osses, not my breeches" (indicating a horseman who cares more about the welfare of his animals than his own appearance). 'Ratcatcher' was the name given to informal attire worn whilst out fox hunting, generally consisting of a tweed jacket and tan coloured breeches.