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Rowland Frederick Emett

Rowland (Frederick) Emett (1906 - 1990) was active/lived in United Kingdom, United States.  Rowland Frederick Emett is known for Illustration-book, sculpture, cartoons.

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE, also known as Rowland Emett was a celebrated cartoonist, a brilliant inventor, a designer, engineer and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture. Rowland was born in 1906 in London, England, son of a businessman and amateur inventor, and the grandson of Queen Victoria's engraver. Emett 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. Many of Emett's cartoons featured outlandish trains and railway scenes of strange bumbling trains with excessively tall chimneys and silly names. These did not go unnoticed and in 1950 the organizers of the 1951 'Festival of Britain' approached him to see if he might create a real-life version of his cartoon Far Twittering and Oyster Perch Railway(later renamed 'The Far   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2976 characters.]  Artist bio

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