About Richard Heighway
Lived 1850 – 1917 (aged 66–67). Richard Heighway was a British artist, cleric and illustrator.
Richard Heighway (March 1832–10 October 1917) was a British illustrator, noted and exhibited for his black and white designs of Aesop's Fables. His work was influenced by the English illustrator Walter Crane.
Heighway's published work include: The Story of the Three Bears, McLoughlin Bros. 1880; The Fables of Æsop, Joseph Jacobs (ed.), MacMillan & Co. 1894; and Bluebeard and Puss in Boots, Banbury Cross Series, Dent 1895.
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Who was Richard Heighway?
illustrator 1850-1917
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Richard Heighway was born in 1850 in Marylebone.
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Richard Heighway died on 10 October 1917.
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Richard Heighway was an artist, cleric and illustrator.
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