Cecil G Trew

Cecil G Trew was the pseudonym of Mrs C Gwendolen Ehrenborg (1897 - 1958).  She did much of her work for A & C Black, and is probably best known now as the illustrator for two of Primrose Cumming’s Silver Eagle books.  She was as much at home drawing dogs as horses and people, and illustrated several dog books.  She also wrote numerous instructional books on drawing.  Out of the five children’s books she wrote, two were pony books.  Click here for more information on them.

 

Cecil G Trew was also a regular contributor to the earliest Pony Club Annuals, providing a series of articles on equine anatomy, and how to draw horses.  Later Annuals saw artlcles based on her book The Accoutrements of the Riding Horse.  These drawings in particular are beautiful.  The two shown here are from Bridle and Bit.

 

Finding the books:  the books she illustrated are reasonably easy to find, and not usually monstrously expensive.

 

Sources and links:

The British Library

Cecil G Trew:  Bridle and Bit (The Pony Club Annual 5, 1954)
Pony Club Book 9, 1958

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Pony Books - covers and/or internal illustrations

 

Primrose Cumming:  Silver Eagle Riding School

A & C Black, 1938

 

D Glyn Forest:  Gipsy’s Way

A & C Black, 1939

 

Catherine Spencer:  Pennies for a Pony

A & C Black, 1950

 

Primrose Cumming:  Silver Eagle Carries On

A & C Black, 1950

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also:

 

Ten Little Nigger Boys

Basil Blackwell, 1931

 

Goldschmidt: An Eye for a Horse

Constable, 1932

 

Bad Rhymes about Good Animals

R Tuck, 1933

 

Fleuron, Svend:  Monarch of the Glen
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935

 

Geoffrey Clowes: The Story of Sail

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936

 

Drawing Without a Master
A & C Black, 1936

 

Moki, Son of the Desert
Constable, 1936

 

Christopher Morshead: Terrier’s Days
Jonathan Cape, 1937

 

Lady Kitty Ritson: Lad

A & C Black, 1938

 

Figure & Animal Drawing

A & C Blackl, 1938

 

Drawing at Home

A & C Black, 1939

 

From Dawn to Eclipse: the Story of the Horse

Methuen, 1939

Re-issued and re-written as: The Horse Through the Ages

Methuen, 1953

 

Lilian Redstone: Our East Anglian Heritage
Methuen 1939

 

Hints for Artists

A & C Black, 1940

 

The Story of the Dog

Methuen, 1940

 

Questions Answered About the Human Body
Jordan & Sons, 1948

 

Questions Answered About Wild Flowers
Jordan & Sons, 1949

 

Drawing Out of Doors

A & C Black, 1950

 

Questions Answered on How to Draw
Jordan & Sons, 1950

 

The Accoutrements of the Riding Horse

Seeley Service, 1951

 

Elementary Drawing in Pencil and Pen-and-Ink

A & C Black, 1952

 

A Pond in Your Garden

Seeley Service, 1952

 

Introduction to Bird Watching

Seeley Service, 1956

 

Drawing Self-Taught

A & C Black, 1957

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asido, the Story of a Mexican Pony

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935

 

Wild Horse of the West

Methuen, 1937