“The acquisition of this important group of works is a perfect complement to the trust’s developing collection,” says Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund. “It’s hard to imagine England’s culture ...

Grants worth £300,000 have helped stop a large number of works by cartoonist and illustrator William Heath Robinson being sold and potentially broken up. The collection, which includes many of ...

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The building of a museum to house the work of William Heath Robinson will start this autumn. This great illustrator of absurd contraptions has bequeathed a curious legacy. Heath Robinson is now ...

The William Heath Robinson Museum Heath Robinson created ... It is this venue which has put on the exhibition focused on his comical works. Curator Geoffrey Beare said the museum had chosen ...

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is best known for his crazy inventions configured in immensely elaborate and comic illustrations. Perhaps less well known is his output of advertising work ...

When the British want to describe a whimsical, improvised or over-elaborate mechanism, they call it a “Heath Robinson” machine, after the drawings of William Heath Robinson. (Americans have a ...

A museum and art gallery dedicated to the life and works of the artist and illustrator William Heath Robinson. Opened in October 2016. Special exhibitions change every 3 months. Please se website ...

The comical scene of silent yet lively revelry can only have come from the mind of William Heath Robinson ... unearthed illustrations from a Complete Works of Shakespeare commissioned by the ...

Grants worth £300,000 have helped stop a large number of works by cartoonist and illustrator William Heath Robinson being sold and potentially broken up. The collection, which includes many of ...