W. Heath Robinson

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Introduction Biography (needed) W. Heath Robinson's Four Styles Works in black and white Kipling's The Song of the English Binding Title-page Section title [ship on open sea] Ship dwarfed by rocks Grieving man Man with upraised sword Castle turrets and trees Page decoration [man on cliff] Section title [cliff] Lighthouse on stilts Ships and lighthouse (Japanese influence) Anxious woman looking out to sea Coast with lighthouse Square-rigged ship Top of lighthouse with rain squall behind Polar bear on the ice floes Vulture Man looking through garret window at rooftops Rain over sea and rocks Seascape and clouds Sailing ship's quarter deck Sail appearing over ocean swell Man with rifle in landscape Grieving woman on seashore Dead castaway on beach Shipwreck near beach Page decoration [Waves] Sea-snake on ocean bottom Breakers Hand of drowned seaman Lion Cottage overlooking the ocean Man standing over campfire Bombay Calcutta Madras Rangoon Singapore Hong-Kong Halifax Quebec and Montreal Victoria Capetown Melbourne Sydney

Brisbane Hobart Auckland Peage decoration [Sea cliff] Caped woman and child Child sitting on ocean rock Stonehenge Female figure with outstretched arms rising from the sea Wave crashing against ocean rocks Conflagration Woman seated near column Woman addressing young warrior Man contemplating the sea Man waving hat at ship Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena: "O weary night, O long and tedious night" Demetrius: "Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?" Half-title page for Act V Titania: "Full oft hath she gossip'd by my side" The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe The Night's Plutonian Shore Works in Color Kipling's The Song of the English Follow after -- we are waiting, by trails that we lost Follow After The Coastwise Lights of England Came the whisper, came the Vision On the sand-drift -- on the veldt-side She calls us, still unfed Lord God, we ha' paid in full! In the womb of the world We that were bred overseas Bombay Calcutta Halifax Capteown Melbourne Auckland Melbourne

Bibliography

Lewis, John. Heath Robinson: Artist and Comic Genius. London: Constable, 1973. Contains a list of books Robinson illustrated with descriptions and information about reprints.

Peppin, Brigid. Fantasy: The Golden Age of Fantastic Illustration. New York: New American Library, 1976. (Also Watson-Guptill, 1975.)

Web Resources

• Bud Plant Illustrated Books
• cartage.org
• The Wee Web

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