Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Two collections of Fairy Tales stand out in William Heath Robinson’s illustrative work. These are the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which he illustrated three times, and those collected by Charles Perrault. The Perrault stories were translated from the French by his agent A E Johnson and published in 1921 under the title Old…

£6

Illustrating the Grotesque

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United Kingdom

Following the success of Uncle Lubin (1902), Heath Robinson was commissioned to illustrate The Works of Rabelais. These portray a bleak landscape largely peopled by grotesque peasants and priests whose lives are dominated by fear and superstition and who can find relief only in drunkenness and debauchery.

£6