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Frederick Henry Townsend (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of ''

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''.

Career

Family grave of Frederick Henry Townsend in Highgate Cemetery

F.H. Townsend illustrated the second edition of

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's 1847 novel ''

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'' and ''

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's ''House of the Seven Gables'' in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's ''The Brushwood Boy'' and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's ''

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''. Townsend also contributed cartoons to ''

'', 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). In later life he became interested in etching and in 1915 he was elected as an associate of the

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(ARE), having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier. 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. He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of

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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

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) * ''The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles'' * ''

'' * ''The Following of the Star: A Romance'' * ''

'' * ''

'' (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)

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* *Townsend's Illustrations from ''Punch'' i
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British editorial cartoonists British illustrators British editors 1868 births 1920 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery Punch (magazine) cartoonists {{illustrator-stub