Edgar Alfred Holloway

Edgar Alfred Holloway (1870 – 1941) was a noted illustrator of children's books. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He became a war artist during the Boer War. He excelled in military uniform portraits and he worked extensively for the Gale and Polden producing military uniform pictures for their postcard series. His illustrations have subsequently been reprinted in books on British army uniforms.

Holloway contributed illustrations to the Boy's Own Paper and Young England magazine and illustrated numerous children's books - mostly adventure books for boys. He emigrated to Australia in 1930 and illustrated a number of books for the Cornstalk Publishing Company in Sydney. He died in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, in 1941.

Picture Books by Edgar Alfred Holloway

• ABC of Jolly Jack, London, Gale & Polden, ca. 1920.
• Soldiers of Many Lands, London, Gale & Polden, 1917.
• A wounded soldier is found by a rescue dog who alerts the nurse and ambulancemen of their whereabouts. Coloured chromolithograph, 1904

Other Works illustrated by Edward Alfred Holloway

• Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscom), Lone Tree Lode, London: Duckworth & Co.,1913.
• W.E. Cule, Rodborough School, Pilgrim Press, 1915.
• D.E. Alarcon, D. Pedro, The Three-Cornered Hat. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925.
• Mary Grant Bruce, Hugh Stanford's Luck. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925.
• E. V. Tims (David Roseler). Lawrence, Prince of Mecca. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1927.
• E. V. Tims (David Roseler). The Valley of Adventure. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1929.

References

• Harrington, Peter (2001). British Army Uniforms in Color as Illustrated by John McNeill, Ernest Ibbetson, Edgar Holloway and Harry Payne, c. 1908-1919. Atglen, PA: Schiffer.

External links

• The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum
• "Holloway, Edgar A." See AusLit: The Australian Literary Resource. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
• Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library collection of 43 water-colors by Holloway painted for Gale and Polden depicting British regimental uniforms, 1909-1916.