["I fell from my position"]319 by 243mm, ink and watercolour, signed "W. Heath Robinson" in lower right corner.
This watercolour shows a boy falling from a tree whilst Aunt Galladia has afternoon tea with her pet green-toed button crane of Baraboo.
The illustration is from 'Good Aunt Galladia', one of the stories within Heath-Robinson's Bill the Minder (first published in 1912).
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The illustration is from 'Good Aunt Galladia', one of the stories within Heath-Robinson's Bill the Minder (first published in 1912).
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[Harmless Indeed were our joys]
317 by 240mm, ink and watercolour heightened with gouache, signed "W. Heath-Robinson" in lower right corner.
This watercolour shows the five children of "a singularly wild-looking man" in the sea with the sands and gentle waves behind.
The illustration is from 'The Wild Man', one of the stories within Heath Robinson's Bill the Minder (first published in 1912).
The illustration is from 'The Wild Man', one of the stories within Heath Robinson's Bill the Minder (first published in 1912).
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