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Arthur Burdett Frost
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Jan. 17, 1851, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.
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June 22, 1928, Pasadena, Calif. (aged 77)
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Frost, A.B.: The George Washington Jones Family Returns from Paris
Frost, A.B.: The George Washington Jones Family Returns from Paris The George Washington Jones Family Returns from Paris, drawing by A.B. Frost for Harper's Weekly.

A.B. Frost

American illustrator
Also known as: Arthur Burdett Frost
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A.B. Frost (born Jan. 17, 1851, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died June 22, 1928, Pasadena, Calif.) was an American illustrator, famous for his drawings of Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, and other characters created by Joel Chandler Harris, an American writer of Southern dialect folktales.

In his teens Frost learned something of wood engraving and lithography before moving to New York, where he worked for the Graphic in 1875. He later contributed illustrations to Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s Monthly, and Collier’s magazines and illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Rhyme? and Reason? In 1877–78 he worked briefly in London and from 1908 to 1916 in Paris. His work captured the appearance and characteristics of rural and small-town American types. His Book of Drawings was published in 1904.

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