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Rowland Emett Art for Sale at Auction

Cartoonist, Illustrator

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (British, B. 1906 – D. 1990): Known as Rowland Emett he was a celebrated cartoonist, a brilliant inventor, a designer, engineer and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture (automata).

Born in 1906 in London, England, son of a businessman and amateur inventor, and the grandson of Queen Victoria's engraver, Emett unsurprisingly studied art and started employment in the commercial art field. Seeing a friend paid handsomely by Punch Magazine for what he thought was a poor article, he submitted his own, quickly becoming one of the most popular cartoonists at Punch, and eventually becoming Cartoon Editor.

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