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The Golden Age of Illustration Storybook Artists
Collection of over 1,600 story book arts from the artists from The Golden Age of Illustration period (1880 to 1930s). Instantly download them in high resolution
W Heath Robinson
W Heath Robinson (1872 – 1944) (“W” for William) was an English cartoonist and book illustrator that is best remembered for drawings of elaborate and complex machinations that is meant to achieve very simple tasks or results. So famous for his elaborate machinery that there was a code breaking machine that the British used during World War II that was named after him! Heath Robinson came from a family of artists, as his father Thomas Robinson (1838–1902) and brothers Thomas Heath Robinson (1869–1954) and Charles Robinson (1870–1937) all worked as illustrators.
With an ambition to be a landscape painter, W Heath Robinson attended art school at Islington School of Arts, and later at Royal Academy Schools. However graduated to become a cartoonist and book illustrator following the footsteps of his family. Got his start in his career illustrating books that are very collectible and phenomenal today such as Hans Christian Andersen’s Danish Fairy Tales and Legends (1897), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1914), Tales from Shakespeare (1902), The Arabian Nights (1899), among many others.
He passed away in 1944 and the Heath Robinson Museum that was opened in 2016 near to where he lived with thousands of his artworks to commemorate his life’s achievement.
Featuring art collection from the books:-
- > A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- > A Song of the English
- > Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha
- > Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha 1902
- > Aladdin and Other Tales from Arabian Nights
- > Bill The Minder
- > Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling
- > Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen
- > Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- > Old Time Stories
- > Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- > The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
- > The Giant Crab Other Tales
- > The Water Babies
- > The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Vol1
- > The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Vol2
- > Twelfth Night
- > W. Heath Robinsons’s Storybook
- > Other Works
Instant Download Contents:-
- > 785 high quality pictures
- > Large pictures average at 1,700 x 2,400 pixels wide, 300 dpi
- > File format: JPG
- > All unique and no duplication of same picture
- > Sorted artworks by book titles
- > Fast instant download after purchase
Some random samples from the collection:-
** please note the sample pictures are downsized for faster loading :)
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