"The Sugary Shipwrecked Zoo" Lot no. 935
By Richard Bathurst Birch 1856-1943
Early 1900's (Estimated)
9.00" x 11.50"
Pen and Ink on Board
Signed Illegibly Lower Right
SOLD
Birch, Reginald Bathurst:Noted for as a children's book illustrator and for other comic illustrations.. English artist, 1856-1943, active in the United States
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Reginald Bathurst Birch was known as “the children Gibson” because of the great number of pen-and-ink illustrations for children’s stories and fairy tales he did for St. Nicholas magazine.
His drawings give the appearance of great spontaneity and directness resulting from his practice of using models only for his preliminary sketches and rendering the finished drawings freely from them.
Although Birch also illustrated The Century magazine, Harper’s, McClure’s, Scribner’s, Collier’s, the old Life, Youth’s Companion, and nearly 200 books, his best known illustrations were done for Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1886. These were responsible for a whole generation of Victorian boys’ being forced to wear black velvet suits, lace collars and curls, patterned after Birch’s prototype.
Birch was born in England, grew up in San Francisco, and studied at the Art Academy in Munich, Germany.