Original artwork for How to Live in a Flat: "Even in the Confined Garden of a Converted House Communal Sport May Be Indulged In".

1936. Original artwork presenting a solution to the challenges of living in a flat One of the cartoonist's famously whimsical cartoons, published within How to Live in a Flat in 1936 on page 77. The illustrator's inventive wit provided the English language with a term to describe an implausible, ingenious or over-complicated construction or design. Between 1932 and 1933 Heath Robinson contributed a series of cartoons to The Sketch magazine which provided solutions to the challenges of living in a contemporary flat and using limited space to full potential. This series was the basis for the volume entitled How to Live in a Flat, published by Hutchinson in 1936, with text by K. R. G. Browne (1895-1940). It was the first full-length book collaboration between Browne and Robinson. Original drawing (220 x 212 mm) on artist's board (380 x 272 mm with "Roberson's Fashion Board" printed on reverse), pen and ink drawing, unsigned, titled lower centre with additional pencil note, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size: 462 x 350 mm). Pin holes at corners below mount, minor loss to corners below mount, light soiling; a fine and unfaded drawing.