F. H. Townsend
Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (February 25, 1868– December 11, 1920) [1][2] was a British illustrator and cartoonist. He 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 [3] in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy[4] and the 1913 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four. Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch.[5]

Townsend 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),[4] having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier.[6]
Works as illustrator
Townsend illustrated the following works:
- A Social Departure (1890), An American Girl in London (1891), Two Girls on a Barge (1981), The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib (1893), The Path of a Star (1899), Those Delightful Americans (1902), by Sara Jeannette Duncan
- The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles
- A Child's History of England
- The Following of the Star: A Romance
- Gryll Grange
- Jane Eyre (second edition)
- Jill: A Flower Girl
- Mr. Punch at Home: The Comic Side of Domestic Life
- The Old Maids' Club
- Secrets of the Sword
- The Joneses and the Asterisks: A Story in Monologue. By Gerald Campbell
- Select Conversations with an Uncle, now Extinct.. By H. G. Wells
References
- https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/townsend_fh.htm
- gutenberg.org. Retrieved 16 November 2008
- https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/townsend_fh.htm
- Peppin, Bridget; Micklethwait, Lucy (1984). "Frederick Henry Linton Jehne Townsend (1868-1920)". Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century. New York: Arco Publishing Inc. p. 304.
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916, by Various. 1916. p. 431.
- "Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (1868-1920)". Chris Beetles Gallery. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
External links
Media related to F. H. Townsend at Wikimedia Commons- Townsend's Illustrations from Punch in HeidICON
- Works by Frederick Henry Townsend at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about F. H. Townsend at Internet Archive
- F. H. Townsend at Library of Congress Authorities, with 13 catalogue records
- Lambiek Comiclopedia article.