George Worsley Adamson
 
Illustrator and humorist

Illustrations by George Adamson published between 1961 and 1988 in Punch and Punch diary
Caption/description	Issue	Date	Size	Nature
The Years with Kinross: Childhood (boy in sailor suit)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6306, p. 138	26/07/1961	small	line, signed
The Years with Kinross: Schooldays	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6307, p. 174	02/08/1961	small	line, signed a
The Years with Kinross: Student years (Sheldonian, Oxford)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6308, p. 210	09/08/1961	small	line, signed
The Years with Kinross: Youth (party)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6309, p. 246	16/08/1961	small	line, signed
The Years with Kinross: Escape (in toupie)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6310, p. 282	23/08/1961	small	line, signed a
‘To Mercury with a Crash Helmet’ by P. M. Hubbard (man on motorbike and Mercury)	Vol. CCXLII, Almanack 1962, pp. 28--9	06/11/1961	double illustration	line
The Seeding Twenties (Gwyn Thomas): Paling Darkness (old bearded man)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6326, p. 830	06/12/1961	small	line & zipatone
The Seeding Twenties (Gwyn Thomas): Scalping Party (when sin freezes the hub)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6327, p. 860	13/12/1961	small	line & zipatone
The Seeding Twenties (Gwyn Thomas): It Figures (shouting master)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6328, p. 904	20/12/1961	small	line & zipatone
The Seeding Twenties (Gwyn Thomas): The Banner (Mr Mather)	Vol. CCXLI, no. 6329, p. 940	27/12/1961	small	line, signed a
The Seeding Twenties (Gwyn Thomas) (‘I am Trying to Tell You’)	Vol. CCXLII, no. 6330, p. 66	03/01/1962	small	line & zipatone
The Seeding Twenties (Gwyn Thomas) ‘So they came and they took him away’ (Café)	Vol. CCXLII, no. 6331, p. 104	10/01/1962	small	line & zipatone
Other People’s Money (pensioner, workman, businessman, tycoon)	Vol. CCXLII, no. 6341, p. 450; repeated in nos 6342--6346 on 28/3, p. 486, 4/4, p. 522, 11/4, p. 558, 18/4, p. 594, 25/4/62, p. 634	21/03/1962	small	line, signed
Mock GPO ad captioned ‘Here comes the postman again’. (postman at garden gate)	Vol. CCXLIV, no. 6404, p. 818	05/06/1963	small	line, signed
Design 2000AD header design	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6424, p. 598	23/10/1963	small	line, signed a
Never Give All the Heart (doctor and nurse with clip board)	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6427, p. 708	13/11/1963	small	line, signed
Never Give All the Heart (couple in scales)	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6428, p. 742	20/11/1963	small	line, signed
Never Give All the Heart (couple in uniform at table)	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6429, p.778	27/11/1963	small	line, signed
Never Give All the Heart (older man with framed photos of women and of an ass)	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6430, p. 814	04/12/1963	small	line, signed
Never Give All the Heart (judge)	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6431, p. 857	11/12/1963	small	line, signed
Never Give All the Heart (faces stylized)	Vol. CCXLV, no. 6432, p. 886	18/12/1963	small	line, signed
Eminent contemporaries: Stephen Potter on C. E. M. Joad (a portrait of the philosopher, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 1891-1953)	Vol. CCXLVIII, no. 6498, p. 421	24/03/1965	half page	line, signed
Journey into Danger (Malcolm Bradbury) (Canary Island scene and Spanish driver in car)	Vol. CCXLIX, no. 6517, pp. 166--7	04/08/1965	1/3 and small	line, signed
‘Water’ by A. P. H. (?A. P. Herbert) poem illustrations	Vol. 252, no. 6592, p. 55	11/01/1967	2 drawings	line, signed a, and signed
Round Britain with Gun and Camera by Patrick Ryan ‘West Country’. (1) Gate to caravan site; (2) Cars under arches of Exeter Guildhall; (3) Soldier in camouflage meets tourist on Dartmoor; (4) Sleeping yokel	Vol. 252, no. 6598, pp. 272--3	22/02/1967	small	line, 1st--3rd signed a, 4th dwg signed
The Abominable Ski-Man. Stephen Potter on Wintersportsmanship. 3 skiing drawings	Vol. 256, no. 6702, pp. 256--7	19/02/1969	small	line, signed
New Books header: ‘An Everyday Story of Medical Folk’ by Basil Boothroyd: cardboard couple and cat	Vol. 256, no. 6702, p. 285	19/02/1969	small	line, signed
New Books header: Under the Political Hammer: worker and businessman in three-legged race	Vol. 256, no. 6711, p. 619	23/04/1969	small	line, signed
‘Judge’ Fenton Bresler, portrait, ‘No Outsiders’	Vol. 256, no. 6714, p. 719	14/05/1969	1/3 page	line & zipatone, signed
Unlawful assembly: Book Choice header for ‘Leo Harris investigates a new outbreak of crime novels’	Vol. 257, no. 6730, p. 396	03/09/1969	small	line & tone, signed
Something Romantic by R. G. G. Price (2 drawings, Marquess of Mercia at bar at Athenaeum and on street waving umbrella)	Vol. 274, no. 7174, pp. 576 & 577	05/04/1978	1/3 and 1/6 page line drawings	line, 1st signed, 2nd signed a
The Radiator by Alan Hackney: (1) view in council house (Cornish unit) garden with man and woman, washing on line, wheelbarrow; (2) scene with man at desk at outfitters.	Vol. 274, no. 7181, pp. 862-3	24/05/1978	1/3 and 1/6 page	line, 1st signed, 2nd signed a
Worried, Washington by Jack Trevor Story (2 drawings, 1st., stylized juxtaposition of various images, 2nd., Vanessa in jeans on stool	Vol. 474, no. 7185, pp. 1052 & 1053	21/06/1978	1/2 and 1/6 line drawings	line, 1st signed, 2nd signed a
Mr Punch with diary and Toby	Punch Diary and also Pocket Diary 1989	1988	cover	4C, signed

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