F. H. Townsend
Illustration — F. Townsend cartoon from Punch, 14 January 1914, depicting Winston Churchill Frederick Henry Townsend (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.
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F. H. Townsend
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- Born
- 1868 · London.
- Died
- 1920 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- illustrator · caricaturist · etcher · cartoonist · draftsperson
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — F. Townsend cartoon from Punch, 14 January 1914, depicting Winston Churchill Frederick Henry Townsend (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.
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• Illustration — Family grave of F. H. Townsend in Highgate Cemetery F.H. Townsend illustrated the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, A Child's History of England and Gryll Grange, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four. Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch, becoming its art editor for fifteen years from 1905 until his death. He was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club (since its foundation in 1891) and the Arts Club (from 1908). In later life he became interested in etching and in 1915 he was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE), having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier. Townsend was one of the leading illustrators selected by Percy Bradshaw for inclusion in his The Art of the Illustrator which presented a separate portfolio for each of twenty illustrators. He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
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A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909., 1909, by F. H. Townsend
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Works as illustrator
section Townsend illustrated the following works: • A Social Departure (1890) • An American Girl in London (1891) • Two Girls on a Barge (1981) • The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib (1893) • The Path of a Star (1899) • Those Delightful Americans (1902, by Sara Jeannette Duncan) • The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles • A Child's History of England • The Following of the Star: A Romance • Gryll Grange • Jane Eyre (second edition) • Jill: A Flower Girl • Mr. Punch at Home: The Comic Side of Domestic Life • The Old Maids' Club • Secrets of the Sword • The Joneses and the Asterisks: A Story in Monologue (by Gerald Campbell)
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- 1.F. H. Townsend - Lambiek Comiclopedia.
- 2.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 16 November 2008
- 3.Peppin, Bridget. Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century. Arco Publishing Inc. 304. 1984.
- 4.Klinger, Leslie (ed.). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). p. 269.
- 5.Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916, by Various. 431. 1916.
- 6.Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (1868-1920). Chris Beetles Gallery.
- 7.The Connisseur Bookself. The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors. 51. 204. 223. 1918-08-01.
- 8.Frederick Henry Townsend: F H Townsend and His Work: The Art of the Illustrator (Limited Edition Prints). Illustration Art Gallery with The Book Palace.
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