William Heath Robinson was an English artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He was one of six children of Eliza and Thomas Robinson. His father was an illustrator and earned his income primarily from his created illustrations for the Penny Illustrated Paper. So it's no wonder that William Heath Robinson also became an illustrator. He studied at the Islington School of Art. After leaving school, he tried unsuccessfully to earn a living by painting landscapes. His first book illustrations were published in Don Quixote, Danish Fairy Tales and The Giant Crab and Other Tales from India. However, it was not until the publication of Uncle Lubin that he was able to improve his financial situation. William Heath Robinson worked in black and white for his first book illustrations. Well-known illustrated gift books by William Heath Robinson include Twelfth Night, A Song of the English, Bill the Minder, Fairy Tales, Old Time Stories, Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest. In addition, he not only illustrated books, but also wrote them himself, such as "The Adventures of Uncle Lubin" and "Bill the Minder". The stories are charming, funny, simple, funny and absurd at the same time.
William Heath Robinson used both color plates and illustrations in black and white. The Hans Andersen was a success, which stood out with black and white illustrations and well-printed plates, as they were designed either with decorative charm and cheerfulness or absurdly humorous. Besides his books, William Heath Robinson started drawing cartoons and depicting them in a funny way. The first drawings first appeared in magazines, such as "London Magazine", "Pall Mall Magazine", "Bystander" and "Sketch". The artistic drawings of William Heath Robinson were illustrated in many different advertising brochures. He had a fascinating connection with industry and commerce, as he created different works for companies. The success of his cartoons was due to the style of the drawings, which he created in an absurd way. William Heath Robinson believed in his artistic abilities and considered them as a kind of joke. He also made many appearances on television and radio, designed sets for the theater and painted murals. The art in his paintings was the mixing of the serious with the comic, which he conveyed through his illustrations, cartoons and drawings. However, he became known especially as a creator of strange mechanical devices and machines. His name was used as a synonym for such devices. In his first drawings, he set out to ridicule the self-importance and fussiness of experts. William Heath Robinson found that the complicated machines stood as a metaphor for bureaucracy and various processes. Most of William Heath Robinson's humorous work focuses on the human condition, the weakness and self-importance of man than on the devices and apparatuses themselves.
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.jpg "An interesting and elegant apparatus designed to overcome once for all the difficulties of conveying green peas to the mouth by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Swimming the channel, some simple devices to ensure success by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "How Noah, by Skilful Management, Averted a Catastrophe at the Subsidence of the Flood by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-976348).jpg "Romantic Possibilities in Modern Flats by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Overcoming the difficulties of serenading in New York City by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Pit Head, c.1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Little Red Riding Hood Went to the Bedside, illustration from Old Time Stories by Charles Perrault, pub. by Constable & Co Ltd, 1921 by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "She Understood the Speech of Birds by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The wart chair, a simple device for removing a wart from the top of the head by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Multi-movement Tabby Silencer, this apparatus can be operated from the bedroom window and is guaranteed to reach any part of the back yard by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "She Sat The Livelong Day Upon the Roof of Her Palace, Expecting Him by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Round and Round They Went, Such Whirling and Twirling by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1032358).jpg "O the terrible Coil that they keep! by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-169187).jpg "A Song of the English title page (St George and the Dragon) by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "An Abandoned Young Pilot Appropriating Somebody Else")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1015098).jpg "May you fall into sulphur, fire and bottomless pits by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Kind of Thing We Must Expect When It Begins to Freeze by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "And Flapped His Black Wings at the Carriage Till It Was Out of Sight by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Follow After-We Are Waiting by the Trails We Lost. For the Sounds of Many Footsteps, for the Tread of a Host. by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013081).jpg "Teaching Geography, an Opportunity not to be Missed by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Guildhall of London, on the Eve of the Lord Mayor")
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.jpg "The Nest, from Princess Marie-José")
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.jpg "Her brother was in pious conversation with the Duke by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Not a Boat Was To Be Seen by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1008597).jpg "Illustration for Don Quixote by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940102).jpg "The devil was well, and the devil a monk he")
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.jpg "Dance She Must, Over Field and Meadow, c1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The hole in the sporran, a tale of accumulating interest by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-996564).jpg "Set Out in Hot Haste for the Capital of China by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-962615).jpg "In this equipage did he present himself before Pantagruel by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-987800).jpg "Illustration for Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Safety Deck Chair for Giving Due Warning of the Approach of the Tide by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993353).jpg "An Intelligent Method of Overcoming a Difficult Problem by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Nightingale by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Oberon: And Make Him with Fair Aegle Break His Faith, from A Midsummer Night")
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.jpg "He Was Quite As Successful as the Real Nightingale by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "A Fairy Eating an Apple, illustration from A Midsummer Night")
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.jpg "He Came to a Wide Moor by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-962445).jpg "Giving the Wife a Chance by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-987855).jpg "What are her reactions to the Albert Memorial? by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1015116).jpg "Goody Penia by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1014064).jpg "Crooning Keeps Alive the Spirit of Romance by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-962612).jpg "The Lord Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Then She Saw The Storks, c1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1317585).jpg "Stories from Chaucer by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993094).jpg "Nothing Doing! by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "When the Young Man Fell at His Feet, the Sultan Held Him by the Hand, c1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1015111).jpg "And treacherously murdered Abece by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Making of the Arms of Achilles by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Elfin-King")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1018178).jpg "Illustration for Don Quixote by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-987864).jpg "How to avoid tears when peeling onions by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The old King was now left with no other companion than the poor fool by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Yes I Will Go With Thee! Said Tommelise, c1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Clever Ruse of Christmas Guest in Haunted Bedroom to Scare Away the Family Ghost by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Was Foretold by an Old Lourpidon Hag, That His Kingdom Should Be Restored to Him at the Coming of the Cocklicranes by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Tempering the water to the shorn lamb, the new waterside geyser for the holidays by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "So Elise Took Off Her Clothes and Stepped into the Water, c1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Arrival of the judge, juries, counsel and litigants at the law courts by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "She Wore a Large Hat, With Most Beautiful Flowers On It by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Safety first! New road regulations shortly to be introduced to ensure the safety and comfort of pedestrians by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The magician set them on fire, and when they were in a blaze, threw in some incense (engraving) by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Man Surprised by Bird in His Morning Egg by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1018370).jpg "Achilles, fleetest of foot, and bravest of all Greek heroes by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940088).jpg "They Fell Down Before Him Like Hay Before a Mower by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Swallow Soared High Into The Air by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Follow After-Follow After-For the Harvest is Sewn by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-314177).jpg "The Toyshop, 1900 by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013075).jpg "Communal Joys in the Stone Age, Origin of the Roundabout by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940751).jpg "The Mind of Woman Works in Mysterious Ways by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "An Aerial Cricket Match of the Future by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993342).jpg "Communal Eurhythmics and Physical Jerks on Saturday Afternoons by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-986398).jpg "Panurge Asks Counsel of Pantagruel Whether He Should Marry by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Came the Whisper, Came the Vision by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Magnetic aids to skaters, to be installed in the London parks during the skating season by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "King John Overtaken by the Tide in the Wash by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Sale-time improvements, the one-at-a-time method for the more orderly conducting of sales and the protection of assistants by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-977661).jpg "Immediately the genie appeared (engraving) by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013078).jpg "How to Choose a Name for the Baby by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940763).jpg "How to Prevent the Alarm from Disturbing the Wife in the Morning by William Heath Robinson")
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