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 "Signs of Christmas. Working Overtime in the Half-crown Department of the Mint by William Heath Robinson")
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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 "Pit Head, c.1930 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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.jpg "Overcoming the difficulties of serenading in New York City by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-955323).jpg "Nothing New Under the Sun 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 "The Safety Deck Chair for Giving Due Warning of the Approach of the Tide by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Laying the foundation stone of the projected new structure to replace Waterloo Bridge by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-314177).jpg "The Toyshop, 1900 by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1032087).jpg "A Home-Made Japanese Fiddle by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993084).jpg "Conversion of an Old-Fashioned Scullery to a Bathroom by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Water Coupe, an elegant little car for the convenience of anglers by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-962609).jpg "Friar John by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013260).jpg "Proving That There is Room to Swing a Cat by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Soundness of Newton")
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.jpg "An Elf in Act V of")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1032072).jpg "Can she darn a sock? by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Little Mermaid, c1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Puck: She Never Had So Sweet a Changeling, from A Midsummer Night")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-962607).jpg "The most hideously great mare by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993336).jpg "A Pretty Little Bird Bath at Linnet Court 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-987864).jpg "How to avoid tears when peeling onions 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940102).jpg "The devil was well, and the devil a monk he")
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.jpg "The Swineherd Scolded and the Rain Poured Down 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-962605).jpg "Gargantua by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Pan by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Capetown. Hail! Snatched and bartered aft from hand to hand by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Toys for Christmas, c.1900 by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940093).jpg "Lucifer Will Break Loose by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "How they put the tartans on the kilts in an old kilt-works in the Highlands by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "A Neat Contraption for Recovering a Collar-Stud Which Has Slipped Down the Back by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Petruchio, pretending to find fault with every dish, threw the meat about the floor by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "An Awkward Predicament by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013285).jpg "Eastern luxury in the Home, The Home-made Turkish Bath 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 "A Busy Morning in the Sumptuous Studio of a Fashionable Hair Artist by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940761).jpg "How to Go to Bed without Disturbing the Household after a Late Night by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Princesses He Found in Plenty, But Whether They Were Real Princesses It Was Impossible for Him to Determine by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "A Fairy Eating an Apple, illustration from A Midsummer Night")
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.jpg "I Believe")
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.jpg "Auckland. Last, Loneliest, Loveliest, Exquisite, Apart by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "He Did Not Come to Woo Her, He Said, c. 1930 by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1032709).jpg "Illustration for Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "I Will Have Thee Myself To Wife, c1930 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 "Fish Tennis, a thrilling new water game by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "When My Lords the Devils Had a Mind to Recreate Themselves Upon the Water 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-941881).jpg "Illustration for Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940765).jpg "Taking the Cat")
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.jpg "Mrs Mowbray Were There by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-968356).jpg "Illustration for Don Quixote by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Administering Dose of Medicine to a Boy by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1032361).jpg "Pierce into the high aerial clouds by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-963737).jpg "Illustration for The Adventures of Don Quixote by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Then Began The Nightingale To Sing by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-941873).jpg "Illustration for Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson 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 "The man who couldn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1018169).jpg "Illustration for Don Quixote by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940418).jpg "Made a Low Obeisance to Him by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-986405).jpg "Oh, I Am a Dead Woman 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1015098).jpg "May you fall into sulphur, fire and bottomless pits by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The Stolen Queue by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940099).jpg "My hatchet, Lord Jupiter, my hatchet by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1014078).jpg "How to Brush the Back of Your Coat Without Troubling Your Wife by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1027996).jpg "Slew Him on the Spot by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940097).jpg "They, to the suits already begot and engendered, form head, feet, claws by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993332).jpg "The Fresh Air Parlour by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Don Quixote by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993338).jpg "Sun-Bathing for Flat-Dwellers by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "The new banting bed for reducing the figure by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Flat life, Sane economy of space at a wedding reception by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-987866).jpg "A perfect husband is a prop to the household by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-963241).jpg "An Interesting Layout for a Small Pleasure Garden (lithograph) by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-962446).jpg "Hunt the Seltzer, a Vigorous Game for Water Diviners by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940092).jpg "The Poor Sot Dare Not Defend Himself by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-993096).jpg "How to Draw the Cork When You Have Lost the Corkscrew by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "With The Rest of Her Children of Air, Soared High Above the Rosy Cloud by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-987629).jpg "A much-appreciated gift, a super-de-luxe coffee-maker by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "Two Rogues Calling Themselves Weavers Made Their Appearance by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940103).jpg "Having discovered an ambuscade of Squob-Chitterlings by William Heath Robinson")
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.jpg "This Is Just The Wife For My Son, Said the Toad by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1033167).jpg "Pets")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-940421).jpg "A Very Large Winged Serpent Coming Towards Me by William Heath Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1018176).jpg "Illustration for Don Quixote 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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