Rob Roy 1 (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Frederick Henry Townsend
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 10" x 14" (250mm x 360mm)
Date: 1897
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: TownsendRR01

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Frederick Henry Townsend.

One of a series of illustrations in pen and ink for the 1897 edition of Sir Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy. The inscription on this picture 'I felt myself an usurper'. Professionally matted ready for framing.

• Artist Biography

  Frederick Henry Linton Townsend (1868 - 1920; London, UK)
  Townsend was born in London and studied at the Lambeth School of Art. He contributed to Punch and became its art editor in 1905.
  
  He illustrated many books prior to this appointment, including Jane Eyre (1896), Rob Roy (1897), The Scarlet Letter (1897), The House of the Seven Gables (1897) and many more.