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The portfolio contained: a brief biography of Robinson, an illustration of Robinson at work in his studio, an explanation of Robinson's method of working. This was accompanied by a plate showing an illustration typical of his work and five other plates showing the work at five earlier stages of its
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In fact, the parallels between Aardman's 'cracking contraptions' and Heath Robinson's are, on occasions, startling. The Wallace-Gromit household borrows heavily from a full-scale model of a contraption-filled house entitled 'The Gadget Family', designed and built for the Ideal Home Show in 1934 –
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for the use of "Heath Robinson" as a noun describing any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance is from 1917. The phrase "Heath Robinson contraption" perhaps most commonly describes temporary fixes using ingenuity and whatever is to hand, often string and tape, or unlikely
479:. Heath Robinson drew designs and illustrations for local institutions and schools. Heath Robinson was too old to enlist for WW1; he took on two German POWs to garden after the Armistice. In 1929 the Heath Robinsons returned to London where his two children were now working. 360:. The Foreword (by GWR) notes that the cartoonist was given a free hand to re-imagine the history of the line for the amusement of its customers. The result is a 96-page softback book with alternating full-page cartoons and smaller vignettes, all on pertinent subjects. 375:
arrangements, threaded by lengths of knotted string. Robinson's cartoons were so popular that in Britain the term "Heath Robinson" is used to refer to an improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering. (The corresponding term in the U.S. is
422:(some illustrated with more than one vignette) were printed on ware ranging from eggcups to biscuit barrels, each with a decorative border of characterful children's faces. Titled "Fairyland on China", the range was favourably reviewed in the trade press. 538:
The spotting table used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Battle of Britain to determine the bearing and altitude of an incoming German raid before calling it in to the sector plotting room was known, affectionately, as "the Heath Robinson."
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Midwinter pieces with the "Fairyland on China" designs bear a mark with the registered number "732612". This suggests that the surface decoration was registered in the UK during 1928, and that Robinson probably created the designs in that
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The name "Heath Robinson" became part of common parlance in the UK for complex inventions that achieved absurdly simple results following its use as services slang during the 1914–1918 First World War.
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production, from the first rough to the just before the finished drawing or colour sketch. Robinson's coloured illustration shows a fantasy feast with naked cherubs.
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opened in October 2016 to house a collection of nearly 1,000 original artworks owned by The William Heath Robinson Trust. The museum is in Memorial Park,
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As well as producing a steady stream of humorous drawings for magazines and advertisements, in 1934 he published a collection of his favourites as
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The phrase 'Heath Robinson', used to describe eccentric machinery, had entered the language by the First World War (the earliest citation in the
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The creators of the 'Wallace and Gromit' films have acknowledged that many of Wallace's inventions owe a great debt to those of Heath Robinson.
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well and deployed in flight. Due to its improvised and ramshackle nature it was often referred to as the "Heath Robinson chaff modification".
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engineers designed an impromptu delivery system of welding rods, split pins and string which allowed six packets of chaff to be stored in the
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The last project Robinson worked on shortly before he died was illustrations for Lilian M. Clopet's short story collection
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Wood, Derek, and Dempster, Derek. The Narrow Margin (London, UK; McGraw Hill Book Company), 1961, Page 150.)
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or a spirit lamp and usually kept running by balding, bespectacled men in overalls. There would be complex
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films, Wallace often invents Heath Robinson-like machines, with some inventions being direct references.
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during the Second World War to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named "
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published by Grant Richards, London, 1904. Reprinted by The Navarre Society, London, 1921
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One of his most famous series of illustrations was that which accompanied the first
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Most of his cartoons have since been reprinted many times in multiple collections.
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Robinson motifs on "Fairyland on China" nursery jug for Midwinter Pottery, c.1928
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SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Fairy Tale Illustrations of William Heath Robinson
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is regarded as the start of his career in the depiction of unlikely machines.
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Around 1928, Robinson was commissioned to design a range of nursery ware for
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He died in September 1944, during the Second World War, and is buried in
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Chair. A simple apparatus for removing a wart from the top of the head"
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there are even trapdoors delivering the family to the breakfast table.
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cannibalisations. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to
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Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists
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In 1903 he married Josephine Latey, the daughter of newspaper editor
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W. H. Robinson's illustrations for Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913)
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The Fantastic Paintings of Charles and William Heath Robinson
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silencer", which automatically threw water at serenading cats
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His early career involved illustrating books – among others:
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Sea Harrier Over the Falklands (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
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The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors
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The machines he drew were frequently powered by steam
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Clopet, Lilian M., illustrated by W. Heath Robinson,
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During the First World War, he drew large numbers of
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Georgina Townshend in Surrey Advertiser 2016-01-08,
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Booklet explores artists life and time in Cranleigh
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Heath Robinson 386:being on par with Robinson and Goldberg.) 338:for redistribution at the station buffets" 42: 31: 680:Absurdities: A Book of Collected Drawings 638:The Saintly Hun: a book of German virtues 312:, a typical "Heath Robinson contraption". 1014:. Oxford University Press. p. 603. 1656:Olympic competitors in art competitions 1517:at the BBC web site. Retrieved May 2007 1375:W Heath Robinson in Cranleigh 1918-1929 1226:. London: Grub Street. pp. 9, 17. 977: 956: 471:, Surrey where their daughter attended 254:Robinson served as a consultant at the 820:The Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson 778:Heath Robinson Artist and Comic Genius 1074:The Life and Art of W. Heath Robinson 467:In 1918 the Heath Robinsons moved to 7: 559:aircraft lacked their conventional " 1577:Works by or about W. Heath Robinson 1493:Hostile Skies: My Falklands Air War 989:. 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Index

Heath Robinson

Hornsey Rise
Middlesex
cartoonist
Oxford English Dictionary
Britain's shortages during the Second World War
"make do and mend"

Hornsey Rise
Finsbury Park
Thomas Heath Robinson
Charles Robinson
The Illustrated London News
Hans Christian Andersen
The Arabian Nights
Tales from Shakespeare
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Twelfth Night
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Water-Babies
Walter de la Mare
Percy Bradshaw
The Art of the Illustrator
Percy Bradshaw
The Press Art School
Bill the Minder
cartoons
painting event
art competition

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