| LC control no. | n 87893329 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rountree, Harry, 1878-1950 |
| Variant(s) | Rountree, Harry, b. 1878 |
| Birth date | 1878 |
| Found in | Bradshaw, P.V. Harry Rountree and his work, 1919. NUC pre-56 (Rountree, Harry, 1878- ) wikipedia.org, viewed on 04-01-2016: (Harry Rountree; Harry Rountree (1878 -- 26 September 1950) was a prolific illustrator working in England around the turn of the 19/20th centuries. He came from New Zealand in 1901 to London, when he was 23 years old. By 1903 he was illustrating books for the editor of Little Folks, writing and illustrating his own books, and in demand by nearly every publisher in London. He was one of the subjects in Percy V. Bradshaws' "The Art of the Illustrator" 20 part series, published in 1918, where six stages of the creation of an illustration were published along with notes and biography. Rountree is also noted for his illustrations of British Golf Courses & golfing caricatures. During the First World War, he served as a captain in the Royal Engineers. Rountree produced well-liked cartoons for the magazine Punch from 1905 to 1939, and also created advertising, posters and book illustrations for writers such as P. G. Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle) |
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