W. Heath Robinson
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William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.
An illustration from The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902)
Robinson motifs on "Fairyland on China" nursery jug for Midwinter Pottery, c.1928
Title page of A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, c. 1914 (reprint)
The Illustrated London News
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The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. The magazine was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less frequent publication schedule in 1971, and eventually ceased publication in 2003. The company continues today as Illustrated London News Ltd, a publishing, content, and digital agency in London, which holds the publication and business archives of the magazine.
Front-page of the magazine's first issue (May 14, 1842)
Front cover of 1 October 1892 issue, showing a scene from Sydney Grundy and Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall created by M. Browne and Herbert Railton
Jumbo's Journey to the Docks (The Illustrated London News, 1 April 1882)
Cover of 20 February 1915 issue