This is one of 17 personal postcards written and drawn by William Cave Day and sent to his family when he was away from home. Some have been posted to his wife, daughter, son and his parents and the others were probably handed to them on his return from wherever he'd been.
Most of them have a date on them between 1905 and 1916.
This particular one is dated Sept 25th 1916 and is a sketch of a fat boy at some kind of circus show in Filey. Signed 'W Cave Day
It has been postally sent from Filey to his wife in Knaresborough
William Cave Day (1862-1924) was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. He studied painting under Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefebvre, and M. Chapu for modelling. He also worked under Professor Herkomer at Bushey. He was married to the artist Kathleen Georgina Maclellan Day.
Working from St Ives in 1890, he exhibited his first Royal Academy painting "Gossips in St Ives", Cornwall that year. Though he worked and lived chiefly in Yorkshire (Harrogate and Knaresborough), in 1918-19 he returned to West Cornwall to settle at St Ives and Carbis Bay for the final five years of his life, painting across Cornwall up to his death in 1924.