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Simple Simon

Drawing
1896 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Morgan, Walter Jenks (artist)

Walter Jenks Morgan (1847-1924) was an illustrator and genre painter. Born at Bilston, and educated at Sir Robert Peel's School, Tamworth, Morgan moved to Birmingham and became apprenticed to a lithographer. He studied at the Birmingham School of Art and the Birmingham Society of Artists and produced illustrations for several magazines, including The Graphic and Illustrated London News. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, the New Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of British Artists, and he became President of both the Birmingham Art Circle and the Midlands Art Club.


Object details

Categories
Books
Illustration
Children & Childhood
National Art Library
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Simple Simon (assigned by artist)
  • Simple Simon. (popular title)
  • Nursery rhymes and fables. (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil on paper
Paper
Pencil
Drawing (Image Making)
Physical description
Illustration for colour bookplate on page 15 of Nursery rhymes and fables, collected and illustrated by Walter Jenks Morgan. Illustrates the nursery rhyme Simple Simon and depicts Simple Simon pointing to a pieman going to a fair. Simple Simon asks to taste his wares.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20cm
  • Width: 15.5cm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair. Says Simple simon to the pie man let me taste your wares'. (Inscription in pencil on the illustration.)
  • 'Renier' and 'AR'. (Inscription in ink on the back of the illustration.)
  • 'AR' (Inscription in pencil on the front of the mount.)
  • Scribbles. (Scribbles in pencil on the back of the illustration.)
  • 'W.J.M.' (Inscription in pencil on the front of the illustration.)
  • 'W.J.M.' (Artist's signature in pencil on the front of the illustration.)
  • 'Hark har...The... Sou...' (Incomplete inscription in pencil on the front of the illustration border.)
Credit line
Donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier.
Object history
Bequeathed to the V&A in 1970 by Anne and Fernand G. Renier as part of the Renier Collection.
Literary references
  • <u>Simple Simon.</u>
  • Nursery rhymes and fables, collected and illustrated by Walter Jenks Morgan and published in London by the Christian Knowledge Society, 1896.
Summary
Walter Jenks Morgan (1847-1924) was an illustrator and genre painter. Born at Bilston, and educated at Sir Robert Peel's School, Tamworth, Morgan moved to Birmingham and became apprenticed to a lithographer. He studied at the Birmingham School of Art and the Birmingham Society of Artists and produced illustrations for several magazines, including The Graphic and Illustrated London News. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, the New Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of British Artists, and he became President of both the Birmingham Art Circle and the Midlands Art Club.
Associated object
RENIER.30 (Version)
Other number
BA 383 - Previous Renier Collection pressmark
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
RENIER.29

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Record createdApril 4, 2005
Record URL
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