Clifford Webb

Clifford Webb (14 February 1895 - 29 July 1972) was an English artist, illustrator and author: RBA 1936, RE 1948.

He was apprenticed as a lithographer, served in the British Army ( Wiltshire Regiment) in World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art. Fought in Mons, Gallipoli and Mesopotamina. Wounded four times and mentioned in Despatches. 1917 - 1919 served as Captain in the Indian Army.

1919-22 Studied a the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. 1923-26 Part time lecturer at Birmingham Central School of Art.

He specialised in animal drawings, and produced illustrations for two of the earlier Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome; initially for the second edition of Swallows and Amazons (as Ransome did not like the illustrations for the first edition by Steven Spurrier, which were not used apart from the endpaper map and the dust jacket). He then illustrated the second book, Swallowdale. But Ransome illustrated the third book, Peter Duck and subsequent books himself, and in 1938 produced replacement illustrations for later editions of Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale.

Webb wrote and illustrated children’s books,

• The Story of Noah
• The Thirteenth Pig 1965
• Butterwick Farm 1933
• Animals from Everywhere 1938
• More Animals from Everywhere 1959
• The Story of Noah 1931
• A Jungle Picnic 1934
• The North Pole Before Lunch 1936
• The Friendly Place 1962
• Magic Island
• Strange Creatures 1963
• All Kinds of Animals 1970

His wife Ella Monkton authored a number of books which he illustrated:

• The Key and the Chest
• Tim Minds the Shop
• Tim Minds the Baby
• Tim thinks of Something
• The Top of the Mountain
• The Gates Family
• The Go-To-Bed book 1935

He also illustrated other books;

• Swallow and Amazons: Arthur Ransome, 1930
• Swallowdale : Arthur Ransome, 1931
• An Introduction to India : E Lucia Turnbull 1933
• A Key to the Countryside : Marcus Woodward 1934
• A Surgeons China : Albert Gervais 1934
• Words Beasts and Fishes : Marmaduke Dixey 1936
• The Hill Fox : Ernest Lewis 1937
• Under the Chesnut Tree : Ida Gandy 1938
• Creatures Great and Small: Theordora Horton 1938
• The Gentle Art of Walking : Geoffrey Murray, 1939
• The Pig who was too thin : Margaret Alleyne 1946
• The Enchanted Glen : Beatrice Carroll 1947
• Moss Green Days : Ralph Wightman 1952

References

• Who was Who, 1971-1980 (1981, A & C Black, London)

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Name	Webb, Clifford
Alternative names	Webb, Clifford Cyril
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Date of birth	14 February 1895
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Date of death	29 July 1972
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