Cecil Humphrey Percival b. 25 March 1891

Also known as C. H. Percival, Mr Percival
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Sydney cartoonist, illustrator and painter. Percival took over from Norman Lindsay as principal cartoonist on the Bulletin in August 1924 but in the 1940s was better known for his children's book illustrations.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 8512/1922; 2181/1889’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 38980/1891’.

  • (1944), 'Queer Australian Insects’.

  • (1944), 'Queer Australian Fishes’.

  • (c.1943), 'Queer Birds’.

  • (1943), 'Queer Animals’.

  • Johns, Fred (1927), 'Who’s Who in Australia 1927-28 – A record of the careers of prominent and representative people of the time’, Hassell Press.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin – a cartoon history of Australia’, Cassell Australia (Revised edition), Stanmore, NSW.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art’, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW (facsimile 1980).

  • Muir, Marcie (1992), 'Australian children’s books – a bibliography 1774-1972’, Melbourne University Press, International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Oregon, USA.

  • Rafty, Tony with Mack Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Judd, Craig (1999), 'Australians in black & white – the most public art’, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Judd, Craig.

  • '26190/1963’, NSW Death Records.

  • Kellaher, Tip (1942), 'The Digger Hat’, Currawong Publishing, Sydney, NSW.

  • Buddee, Paul (c.1943), 'The Comical Adventures of Osca and Olga: A Tale of Mice in Mouseland’, Currawong Publishing, Sydney, NSW.

  • Meillon, Jill (c.1946), 'The Ducks Who Didn’t’, Currawong, Sydney, NSW.

  • Buddee, Paul (c.1944), 'The Remarkable Ramblings of Rupert and Rita’, Currawong Publishing Coy, Sydney, NSW.

  • Muir, Marcie (1947), 'Happy Holidays – Stories and Pictures for Children’, Offsett Press, Sydney.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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