Lot 116: Harold C. Earnshaw (fl.1908-1937)

Harold C. Earnshaw (fl.1908-1937)
A complete set of illustrations to The Red Hussar including: 'Out of the smoke of the batteries on the Geisberg a single horseman dashed' (illustrated); 'There is no mistake? You are really my cousin, Will Trevor?'; 'Will began to worm his way forward inch by inch'; and three others
all variously signed 'Harold.C.Earnshaw'
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
10 x 6¾ in. (25.4 x 17.2 cm.) (7)

Reginal Horsley, The Red Hussar, W & R Chambers Ltd., Edinburgh. Sold with a copy of the book.

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Earnshaw studied art in London at St. Martin's School of Art where he met Mabel Lucie Attwell, who was to become his wife. He was seriously injured in the First World War and lost his right arm. However, he learned to draw with his left hand and went on to illustrate a number of children's books and annuals. He died in 1937 after a prolonged illness.