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Here is an original drawing by Hardold Jones for Kathleen Lines book A Ring of Tales, 1958. Printed by Oxford University Press.

A British artist, illustrator and writer of children’s books. Critic Brian Alderson (children’s book critic) called him “perhaps the most original children’s book illustrator of the period”.

Jones was born in London, his twin brother Eric was a sculptor. Harold studied illustration from 1920 at Goldsmith’s College, under Edmund Sullivan, a former teacher of Arthur Rackham; at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1922–1923; and then on scholarship at the Royal College of Art.He established his reputation with lithographs illustrating This Year: Next Year (1937), a collection of verses by Walter de la Mare.Jones’s most acclaimed work was Lavender’s Blue: A book of nursery rhymes (1954), a collection of nursery rhymes named for one of them, “Lavender’s Blue”. This made him a sort after illustrator.

The largest public archive of Harold Jones’s papers and illustrations is at Seven Stories, National Centre for Children’s Books (deposited by the Harold Jones estate in 2005). This drawing was apprently acquired from the Sally Hunter Gallery.

Frame size: 25.5cm x 18cm