Ernest Henri Griset

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is young adult literature. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Ernest Henri Griset is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Turton Tower.

• Illustration — Title page drawing for Griset’s Grotesques, 1867 Griset was born in France but his parents moved to England in 1848. He studied for a while under the Belgian artist Louis Gallait before moving back to England, then regularly drew the animals at the London Zoo as a basis for his paintings and illustrations. He became known particularly for his humorous and satirical designs, which were best displayed in his two Christmas books, Griset’s Grotesques, or Jokes Drawn on Wood (1867), which was accompanied by the comic verses of Tom Hood. Many examples of Griset's work are now in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Less well known are the prehistoric hunting scenes specially commissioned by Sir John Lubbock, some of which are in Bromley Museum, and which were a ground-breaking and sympathetic treatment of the subject. Some of his comic work appeared in Punch, where he was briefly on the staff between 1867-9, as well as in its competitor, Fun. He left Punch at the age of twenty four and worked on illustrating Aesop’s Fables (1869). Of this work a reviewer noted that "nothing so quaint as these illustrations has appeared since the days of Grandville…Griset possesses the faculty of investing his animals with human expression, without ever causing them to lose their own identity, and of making them funny without being ridiculous." A decade later, Griset may have been complicit in an attempt to revive his sales by having a death notice appear in The Times on 9 July 1877, where he was described as having "produced countless drawings in grotesque of animals and human savages, which wise collectors obtained for trivial sums at an untidy little shop near Leicester Square". A few days later the paper admitted that he was neither dead nor even ailing. He was, in fact, to survive for another thirty years.

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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1844 at France. Griset died in 1907 at United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Griset worked at London. It is also recorded that ernest Henri Griset is recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that ernest Henri Griset was born on 24 August 1844. The same evidence establishes that ernest Henri Griset is recorded as human. Institutional cataloguing adds that ernest Henri Griset is recorded with the occupation painter. It is also recorded that ernest Henri Griset is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded with the occupation graphic artist. It is also recorded that ernest Henri Griset is recorded with the occupation cartoonist. It is also recorded that ernest Henri Griset is recorded with the occupation draftsperson. It is also recorded that ernest Henri Griset is recorded with the occupation watercolorist. Griset died on 22 March 1907.