The Art of William Heath Robinson

About this book

In the 1930s William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was known as "the gadget king" and he is still most widely remembered for his wonderfully humorous drawings and illustrations of highly ingenious contraptions. This book includes over a hundred of his original works. Robinsons ambition was to become a landscape painter but he was forced to follow his brothers into book illustration where his reputation was rapidly established. The creator of inimitable illustrations for poetry by Poe and Kipling Andersens Fairy Tales A Midsummer Nights Dream de la Mares Peacock Pie The Water Babies and Perraults Fairy Tales he is ranked alongside Rackham and Dulac achieving classic status around the world. He is also loved for the childrens books that he both wrote and illustrated The Adventures of Uncle Lubin and Bill the Minder.