Heath Robinson Wedding Card

• RRP: £2.50 (incl. VAT)
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• Format: 105 x 148 mm portrait, folded (A6)
• Paper: FSC 300 gsm ivory laid cartridge
• Weight: 9 g
• Envelope: White
• Published: Aug. 2017

In Heath Robinson’s world the perfect bridegroom takes thoughtfulness to the nth degree, hiring a taxi bedecked and garlanded on every mudguard, a horseshoe in the windscreen, a love heart on the door and racks to accommodate the bride's every pair of shoes. The family are forearmed with a patent confetti gun. Look at the poor man’s face. Is this not all too much?

'I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.'
— William Heath Robinson (1918)

Front Page Text:   The Honeymoon Taxi

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is one of the few artists whose names have become part of the English language. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression is used to describe 'any absurdly ingenious and impractical device'. Heath Robinson started out as a landscape artist and book illustrator before finding world-wide fame with his mechanical fantasies. He invented machines for making coffee, lighting cigars, extinguishing candles, peeling potatoes, testing raincoats, saving chickens from injury when crossing the road and conducting just about every other conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable, activity. He satirized the new ways of living that came with technological change, small flats and shortages, creating a whimsical social commentary on his times: history encapsulated in pictures.

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Heath Robinson Wedding Card

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Heath Robinson Wedding Card