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Frederick Henry Townsend Template:Post-nominals (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) [1][2] was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.
Career
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 [1] in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy[3] and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four.[4] Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch,[5] 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).[6] 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),[3] having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier.[6]
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.Template:Refn
He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.Template:Cn
Works as illustrator
Template:Moresources 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)
Notes
References
External links
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- Townsend's Illustrations from Punch in HeidICON
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- Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
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- ↑ gutenberg.org. Retrieved 16 November 2008
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- ↑ Klinger, Leslie (ed.). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). p. 269.
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Template:Cite web