Charles Tunnicliffe
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Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey. He is popula
Charles Tunnicliffe
A Snowy Owl, Anglesey, date unknown.
Tarka the Otter
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Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by the English writer Henry Williamson written between June 1923 and February 1927. Williamson privately pu
Charles Tunnicliffe
…British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey. He is popularly known for his illustrations for the novel Tarka the Otter. Tunnicliffe was born in 1901 in Langley, Macclesfield, England, the fourth surviving child of William Tunnicliffe (died 20 June 1925) of Lane Ends…
First edition; woodcut after Hester Sainsbury
The Beam Aqueduct, the "Canal Bridge" near which Tarka was born
Williamson began writing Tarka the Otter in Skirr Cottage, Georgeham, Devon, where he lived from 1921 to 1925
Sculpture of Tarka the Otter in Bideford, next to the River Torridge; sculpted by Rowan Fawdon