William Heath Robinson(1872-1944) began his career illustrating works of poetry and children's stories. At magazines such as The Sketch, he developed his humorous illustrations for adults, culminating in the series of inventions for which he became known by his contemporaries as 'The Gadget King'. Geoffrey Beare is an art collector, co-founder and chairman of the Imaginative Book Illustration Society, and an authority on the work of William Heath Robinson.
‘One of the 20th century's most prolific comic artists’ * The Sunday Times * ‘Genius ahead of his time’ * Metro * ‘Your absurd, beautiful drawings... give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world' * H.G. Wells, letter to Heath Robinson (1914) *