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F. H. Townsend cartoon from Punch, 14 January 1914, depicting Winston Churchill

Frederick Henry Townsend Шаблон:Post-nominals (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) [1][2] was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.

Career

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Family grave of F. H. Townsend in Highgate Cemetery

Townsend illustrated the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, A Child's History of England and Gryll Grange, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables [1] in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy[3] and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four.[4] Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch,[5] becoming its art editor for fifteen years from 1905 until his death.

He was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club (since its foundation in 1891) and the Arts Club (from 1908).[6] In later life he became interested in etching and in 1915 he was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE),[3] having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier.[6]

Townsend was one of the leading illustrators selected by Percy Bradshaw for inclusion in his The Art of the Illustrator which presented a separate portfolio for each of twenty illustrators.Шаблон:Refn

He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works as illustrator

Townsend illustrated the following works:

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. gutenberg.org. Retrieved 16 November 2008
  3. 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  4. Klinger, Leslie (ed.). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). p. 269. Шаблон:ISBN
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  6. 6,0 6,1 Шаблон:Cite web