At Leisure
Title | At Leisure PDF eBook |
Author | William Heath Robinson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781445645964 |
The craziest inventions and funniest machines from the pen of Heath Robinson.
Britain At Play
Title | Britain At Play PDF eBook |
Author | Heath Robinson |
Publisher | Duckworth |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2008-10-09 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
In Britain at Play we collect the finest of William Heath Robinson's studies of the unique British character. Here we find Britain in the garden, at the beach and on the golf course - the 9th hole played with the grim reaper, rotating sunbathing machines, a double cross tennis match 'For economising space in local tournaments and generally gingering up the game'. Heath Robinson perfectly captures the peculiar character of the great British nation at leisure.
The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
Title | The Adventures of Uncle Lubin PDF eBook |
Author | W. Heath Robinson |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2014-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781567921731 |
With his comically floppy hat and striped baggy stockings, gentle, serious Uncle Lubin is left in charge of his beloved nephew Peter. One fateful day, a great Bagbird swoops down while Uncle Lubin is innocently napping, whisks away the screaming child in his beak, and flies to the moon.
Contraptions
Title | Contraptions PDF eBook |
Author | Heath Robinson |
Publisher | Abrams Press |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2007-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
An introduction to the wonderful world of Heath Robinson, with carefully selected drawings from throughout his illustrious career, and a lively and informative commentary.
Heath Robinson On Travel
Title | Heath Robinson On Travel PDF eBook |
Author | William Heath Robinson |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2015-04-15 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1445646013 |
The craziest inventions and funniest machines from the pen of Heath Robinson
W. Heath Robinson
Title | W. Heath Robinson PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Edwin Johnson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Artists |
ISBN |
It's All a Bit Heath Robinson
Title | It's All a Bit Heath Robinson PDF eBook |
Author | Lucinda Gosling in association with Mary Evans Picture Library |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2017-07-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0750985887 |
William Heath Robinson remains one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase ' it's all a bit Heath Robinson' to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption. Born in London, he originally had ambitions to be a landscape painter, but would establish his artistic reputation as a book illustrator during the genre's so-called golden age. It was his association with weekly illustrated magazine The Sketch that was to launch and cement his legacy as a humorous artist. Combining a distinctive draughtsmanship with a curious and ingenious mind, the advent of the First World War inspired Heath Robinson to dream up a series of increasingly outlandish and bizarre military inventions with which the opposing armies would try to outwit each other. From the kaiser's campaigning car or a suggestion for an armoured bayonet curler, to post-war 'unbullying' of beef, his cartoons are a fantastically absurd take on wartime technology and home-front life. Sadly, his inventions were rejected by a (fictitious) 'Inventions Board', but the charm and eccentricity of his ideas was loved by the public and he remains to this day one of the finest exponents of humorous British art.