Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Heath Robinson NPG D370

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Harry Lawrence Oakley

Robinson came from a dynasty of wood-engravers and commercial artists. He studied at Islington Art School and the Royal Academy Schools, and in 1903 married the daughter of the editor of the Penny Illustrated Paper. Influenced by art nouveau line drawings and Japanese prints, he became illustrator of the Arabian Nights, Rabelais and Shakespeare. He found his niche with drawings of absurd machines performing banal tasks. His sense of the ridiculous boosted morale in both World Wars. In 1934, the full-scale working house for 'the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.