Original artwork for How to Live in a Flat: "The Annual Goldfishing Competition at Boldersbury Court, W."

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 65. The illustrator's inventive wit provided the English language with a term to describe an implausible, ingenious, or overcomplicated 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 (275 x 170 mm) on artist's board (380 x 272 mm with "Roberson's Fashion Board" printed on reverse), pen and ink drawing with minor gouache corrections, 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 extremities below mount, light soiling; a fine and unfaded drawing.