page_title: Rosa C. Petherick
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Rosa C. Petherick / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing by Rosa C. Petherick (1871-1931) of her father Horace William Petherick in 1900.
context_page_description: Rosa Clementina Petherick was a British book illustrator.
context_section_description: In 1900, She drew the portrait of her father that he used as the frontpiece for his books on Antonio Stadivari and on Repairing and Restoring Violins.
  She contributed illustrations to numerous children's story books, annuals and periodicals, particularly those produced by Blackie and Son Limited. According to her obituary in The Times, her etchings could be found in the National Portrait Gallery. Peppin states that although here work was pleasing in appearance ot was somewhat bland and was characterised by uniformly heavy outlines.
  The British Library Catalogue has 55 of her works listed. The Museum of Croydon has 48 of her works in the Croyden Art Collection. However, this is probably only part of her total output. AbeBooks listed over 60 different titles for sale on 9 February 2020 to which she had contributed. She specialised in paintings and drawings of children with their toys, and commonly shows the children at play with each other or with their toys. Most of her work was for very young children, but she did illustrate a few books, school stories mainly, for older children including:
  Avery, Harold (1903). Sale's Sharpshooters: The historical Records of a Very Irregular Corps. London: Thomas Nelson.
  Avery, Harold (1906). The House on the Moor - A School Tale. London: Thomas Nelson.
  Davenport, Adams E. (1920). On Honour: A School and Home Story. London: Thomas Nelson.
  Oxenham, Elsie J. (1926). The Abbey Girls in Town. London: Collins.
  Grant, Pamela (1932). The Fortunes of Billy. London: Collin.
  Grant, Pamela (1933). The Pranks of Doria. London: Sunshine Press.
  However, in some cases, the illustrations by her were limited to a single colour frontpiece, and in any case the few examples were vastly outnumbered by the books for much younger children, some of which has illustrations on almost every page.
  There are 22 books illustrated by her in the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections of children's books at the Toronto Public Library, of which six are available as public domain eBooks. Links for the six eBooks can be found in the external links below.
  Rosa died in Brighton on 20 December 1931. Her second youngest sister, Eveline May, acted as her executor with a final estate of £1,530 18s 4d.
caption: Horace William Petherick drawn by Rosa in 1900
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