F. H. Townsend

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F.H. 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 in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy{{ cite book |last1=Peppin |first1=Bridget |last2=Micklethwait |first2=Lucy |title=Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century |chapter=Frederick Henry Linton Jehne Townsend (1868-1920) |pages=304 |date=1984 |publisher=Arco Publishing Inc. |location=New York }} and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four.Klinger, Leslie (ed.). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume III (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). p. 269. {{ISBN|978-0393058000}} Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch,{{cite book|title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916, by Various|year=1916|pages=431|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38944/38944-h/38944-h.htm}} 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).{{ cite web |title=Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (1868-1920) |website=Chris Beetles Gallery |url=https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artists/townsend-frederick-henry-1868-1920.html |accessdate=2020-06-18 }} 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), 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.{{refn|group=note|The portfolio contained: a brief biography of Townsend, an illustration of Townsend at work in his studio, an explanation of Townsend's method of working. This was accompanied by a plate showing an illustration typical of his work and five other plates showing the work at five earlier stages of its production, from the first rough to the just before the finished drawing or colour sketch.{{r|Art-Illustrator-Review}} Townsend's pen and ink illustration shows two couples relaxing. Townsend's method of first doing a rough sketch and then drawing each character separately before combining the whole is clearly demonstrated. The illustration is dated 1915. {{r|TAOTI-Palace-Townsend}}}}

He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

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Townsend illustrated the following works:

• [https://archive.org/details/socialdepartureh00dunc_0 A Social Departure] (1890)
• [https://archive.org/details/americangirlinlo00dunc An American Girl in London] (1891)
• [https://archive.org/details/twogirlsonbarge00cote Two Girls on a Barge] (1981)
• [https://archive.org/details/simpleadventures00dunc_0 The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib] (1893)
• [https://archive.org/details/pathofstar00cote The Path of a Star] (1899)
• [https://archive.org/details/thosedelightfula00cote 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)

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{{cite journal

|title=The Connisseur Bookself

|journal=The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors

|volume=51

|issue=204

|pages=223

|date=1918-08-01

|url=https://archive.org/details/connoisseur51londuoft

|accessdate=2020-08-12

|via=The Internet Archive

|url-access=registration }}

{{cite web

|title=Frederick Henry Townsend: F H Townsend and His Work: The Art of the Illustrator (Limited Edition Prints)

|website=Illustration Art Gallery with The Book Palace

|url=https://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_Townsend6.html

|accessdate=2020-08-22 }}

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• {{commons category-inline|F. H. Townsend}}
• Townsend's Illustrations from Punch in [http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/punch/person/173005462 HeidICON]
• {{Gutenberg author | id=9854| name=Frederick Henry Townsend}}
• {{Internet Archive author |sname=Frederick Henry Townsend}}
• {{LCAuth|n87893500|F. H. Townsend|13|ue}}
• [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/townsend_fh.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia article.]

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