| LC control no. | n 50039459 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Maitland, Antony, 1935- |
| Birth date | 1935 |
| Place of birth | Andover (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Illustrators |
| Found in | His The secret of the shed, 1963, c1962. Information from 678 converted Dec. 16, 2014 (artist) The quest, 1967: title page (by Hanna Stephan; translated by Daphne Machin Goodall; illustrated by Antony Maitland) Illustrators Wiki, May 19, 2021 (Antony Maitland; Antony Jasper Maitland was born in Andover, Hampshire, in the third quarter of 1935, son of Percy E. Maitland and his wife Alison M., née Kettlewell; he studied at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, graduating in 1957 with a National Diploma in Design; he spent a year studying in Europe on the Leverhulome Research Award, and two years in the Army, becoming 2nd Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps; he spent some time travelling ariound Europe in an old van, visiting Holland, Germany, Italy, Sicily and France; while staying in Paris he started working as an illustrator, and returned to England, settling in London; his first book commission was Philippa Pearce's Mrs Cockle's Cat (1961), which won the Kate Greenaway Medal for that year; he illustrated numerous historical children's novels by Leon Garfield, beginning with Jack Holborn in 1964, and has also illustrated books by Eleanor Farjeon, Penelope Lively, Joan Aiken, Jan Mark and Aidan Chambers) <https://illustrators.fandom.com/wiki/Antony_Maitland> |
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