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AN ARTISTIC JOKE.
A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School.
View larger image THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST BY HARRY FURNISS ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II
A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School.
View larger image THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST BY HARRY FURNISS ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II
NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
1902.
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
All rights reserved.
December, 1901.
Page
CHAPTER VIII.
THE ARTISTIC JOKE. The First Idea--How it was Made--"Fire!"--I am a Somnambulist--My Workshop--My Business "Partner"--Not by Gainsborough--Lord Leighton--The Private View--The Catalogue--Sold Out--How the R.A.'s Took It--How a Critic Took It--Curious Offers--Mr. Sambourne as a Company Promoter--A One-man Show--Punch's Mistake--A Joke within a Joke--My Offer to the Nation pp. 1--25 CHAPTER IX.
CONFESSIONS OF A COLUMBUS. The Cause of my Cruise--No Work--The Atlantic Greyhound--Irish Ship--Irish Doctor--Irish Visitors--Queenstown--A Surprise--Fiddles--Edward Lloyd--Lib--Chess--The Syren--The American Pilot--Real and Ideal--Red Tape--Bribery--Liberty--The Floating Flower Show--The Bouquet--A Bath and a Bishop--"Beastly Healthy"--Entertainment for Shipwrecked Sailors--Passengers--Superstition. America in a Hurry--Harry Columbus Furniss--The Inky Inquisition--First Impressions--Trilby--Tempting Offers--Kidnapped--Major Pond--Sarony--Ice--James B. Brown--Fire!--An Explanation. Washington--Mr. French of Nowhere--Sold--Interviewed--The Sporting Editor--Hot Stuff--The Capitol--Congress--House of Representatives--The Page Boys--The Agent--Filibuster--The "Reccard"--A Pandemonium--Interviewing the President. Chicago--The Windy City--Blowers--Niagara--Water and Wood--Darkness to Light--My Vis-�-Vis--Mr. Punch--My Driver--It Grows upon Me--Inspiration--Harnessing Niagara--The Three Sisters--Incline Railway--Captain Webb. Travelling--Tickets--Thirst--Sancho Panza--Proclaimed States--"The Amurrican Gurl"--A Lady Interviewer--The English Girl--A Hair Restorer--Twelfth Night Club Reception at a Ladies' Club--The Great Presidential Election--Sound Money v. Free Silver--Slumland--Detective O'Flaherty. pp. 26--130 CHAPTER X.
AUSTRALIA. Quarantined--The Receiver-General of Australia--An Australian Guide-book--A Death Trap--A Death Story--The New Chum--Commercial Confessions--Mad Melbourne--Hydrophobia--Madness--A Land Boom--A Paper Panic--Ruin. Sydney--The Confessions of a Legislator--Federation--Patrick Francis Moran. Adelaide--Wanted, a Harbour--Wanted, an Expression--Zoological--Guinea-pigs--Paradise!--Types--Hell Fire Jack--The Horse--The Wrong Room! pp. 131--153 CHAPTER XI.
PLATFORM CONFESSIONS. Lectures and Lecturers--The Boy's Idea--How to Deliver It--The Professor--The Actors--My First Platform--Smoke--Cards--On the Table--Nurses--Some Unrehearsed Effects--Dress--A Struggle with a Shirt--A Struggle with a Bluebottle--Sir William Harcourt Goes out--My Lanternists Go Out--Chairmen--The Absent Chairman--The Ideal Chairman--The Political Chairman--The Ignorant Chairman--Chestnuts--Misunderstood--Advice to Those about to Lecture--I am Overworked--"'Arry to Harry." pp. 154-189 CHAPTER XII.
MY CONFESSIONS AS A "REFORMER." Portraiture Past and Present--The National Portrait Gallery Scandal--Fashionable Portraiture--The Price of an Autograph--Marquis Tseng--"So That's My Father!"--Sala Attacks Me--My Retort--Du Maurier's Little Joke--My Speech--What I Said and What I Did Not Say--Fury of Sala--The Great Six-Toe Trial--Lockwood Serious--My Little Joke--Nottingham Again--Prince of Journalists--Royal Academy Antics--An Earnest Confession--My Object--My Lady Oil--Congratulations--Confirmations--The Tate Gallery--The Proposed Banquet--The P.R.A. and Modern Art--My Confessions in the Central Criminal Court--Cricket in the Park--Reform!--All About that Snake--The Discovery--The Capture--Safe--The Press--Mystery--Evasive--Experts--I Retaliate--The Westminster Gazette--The Schoolboy--The Scare--Sensation--Death--Matters Zoological--Modern Inconveniences--Do Women Fail in Art?--Wanted a Wife pp. 190-234 CHAPTER XIII.
MY CONFESSIONS AS A "REFORMER." My First City Dinner--A Minnow against the Stream--Those Table Plans--Chaos--The City Alderman, Past and Present--Whistler's Lollipops--Odd Volumes--Exchanging Names--Ye Red Lyon Clubbe--The Pointed Beard--Baltimore Oysters--The Sound Money Dinner--To Meet General Boulanger--A Lunch at Washington--No Speeches. The Thirteen Club--What it was--How it was Boomed--Gruesome Details--Squint-Eyed Waiters--Superstitious Absentees--My Reasons for being Present--'Arry of Punch--The Lost "Vocal" Chords--The Undergraduate and the Undertaker--Model Speeches--Albert Smith--An Atlantic Contradiction--The White Horse--The White Feather--Exit 13 pp. 235-271 CHAPTER XIV.
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN EDITOR. Editors--Publishers--An Offer--Why I Refused it--The Pall Mall Budget--Lika Joko--The New Budget--The Truth about my Enterprises--Au Revoir! pp. 272-280
THE ARTISTIC JOKE. The First Idea--How it was Made--"Fire!"--I am a Somnambulist--My Workshop--My Business "Partner"--Not by Gainsborough--Lord Leighton--The Private View--The Catalogue--Sold Out--How the R.A.'s Took It--How a Critic Took It--Curious Offers--Mr. Sambourne as a Company Promoter--A One-man Show--Punch's Mistake--A Joke within a Joke--My Offer to the Nation pp. 1--25 CHAPTER IX.
CONFESSIONS OF A COLUMBUS. The Cause of my Cruise--No Work--The Atlantic Greyhound--Irish Ship--Irish Doctor--Irish Visitors--Queenstown--A Surprise--Fiddles--Edward Lloyd--Lib--Chess--The Syren--The American Pilot--Real and Ideal--Red Tape--Bribery--Liberty--The Floating Flower Show--The Bouquet--A Bath and a Bishop--"Beastly Healthy"--Entertainment for Shipwrecked Sailors--Passengers--Superstition. America in a Hurry--Harry Columbus Furniss--The Inky Inquisition--First Impressions--Trilby--Tempting Offers--Kidnapped--Major Pond--Sarony--Ice--James B. Brown--Fire!--An Explanation. Washington--Mr. French of Nowhere--Sold--Interviewed--The Sporting Editor--Hot Stuff--The Capitol--Congress--House of Representatives--The Page Boys--The Agent--Filibuster--The "Reccard"--A Pandemonium--Interviewing the President. Chicago--The Windy City--Blowers--Niagara--Water and Wood--Darkness to Light--My Vis-�-Vis--Mr. Punch--My Driver--It Grows upon Me--Inspiration--Harnessing Niagara--The Three Sisters--Incline Railway--Captain Webb. Travelling--Tickets--Thirst--Sancho Panza--Proclaimed States--"The Amurrican Gurl"--A Lady Interviewer--The English Girl--A Hair Restorer--Twelfth Night Club Reception at a Ladies' Club--The Great Presidential Election--Sound Money v. Free Silver--Slumland--Detective O'Flaherty. pp. 26--130 CHAPTER X.
AUSTRALIA. Quarantined--The Receiver-General of Australia--An Australian Guide-book--A Death Trap--A Death Story--The New Chum--Commercial Confessions--Mad Melbourne--Hydrophobia--Madness--A Land Boom--A Paper Panic--Ruin. Sydney--The Confessions of a Legislator--Federation--Patrick Francis Moran. Adelaide--Wanted, a Harbour--Wanted, an Expression--Zoological--Guinea-pigs--Paradise!--Types--Hell Fire Jack--The Horse--The Wrong Room! pp. 131--153 CHAPTER XI.
PLATFORM CONFESSIONS. Lectures and Lecturers--The Boy's Idea--How to Deliver It--The Professor--The Actors--My First Platform--Smoke--Cards--On the Table--Nurses--Some Unrehearsed Effects--Dress--A Struggle with a Shirt--A Struggle with a Bluebottle--Sir William Harcourt Goes out--My Lanternists Go Out--Chairmen--The Absent Chairman--The Ideal Chairman--The Political Chairman--The Ignorant Chairman--Chestnuts--Misunderstood--Advice to Those about to Lecture--I am Overworked--"'Arry to Harry." pp. 154-189 CHAPTER XII.
MY CONFESSIONS AS A "REFORMER." Portraiture Past and Present--The National Portrait Gallery Scandal--Fashionable Portraiture--The Price of an Autograph--Marquis Tseng--"So That's My Father!"--Sala Attacks Me--My Retort--Du Maurier's Little Joke--My Speech--What I Said and What I Did Not Say--Fury of Sala--The Great Six-Toe Trial--Lockwood Serious--My Little Joke--Nottingham Again--Prince of Journalists--Royal Academy Antics--An Earnest Confession--My Object--My Lady Oil--Congratulations--Confirmations--The Tate Gallery--The Proposed Banquet--The P.R.A. and Modern Art--My Confessions in the Central Criminal Court--Cricket in the Park--Reform!--All About that Snake--The Discovery--The Capture--Safe--The Press--Mystery--Evasive--Experts--I Retaliate--The Westminster Gazette--The Schoolboy--The Scare--Sensation--Death--Matters Zoological--Modern Inconveniences--Do Women Fail in Art?--Wanted a Wife pp. 190-234 CHAPTER XIII.
MY CONFESSIONS AS A "REFORMER." My First City Dinner--A Minnow against the Stream--Those Table Plans--Chaos--The City Alderman, Past and Present--Whistler's Lollipops--Odd Volumes--Exchanging Names--Ye Red Lyon Clubbe--The Pointed Beard--Baltimore Oysters--The Sound Money Dinner--To Meet General Boulanger--A Lunch at Washington--No Speeches. The Thirteen Club--What it was--How it was Boomed--Gruesome Details--Squint-Eyed Waiters--Superstitious Absentees--My Reasons for being Present--'Arry of Punch--The Lost "Vocal" Chords--The Undergraduate and the Undertaker--Model Speeches--Albert Smith--An Atlantic Contradiction--The White Horse--The White Feather--Exit 13 pp. 235-271 CHAPTER XIV.
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN EDITOR. Editors--Publishers--An Offer--Why I Refused it--The Pall Mall Budget--Lika Joko--The New Budget--The Truth about my Enterprises--Au Revoir! pp. 272-280
HARRY FURNISS'S (EGYPTIAN STYLE).
From "Punch." LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
From "Punch." LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
An Artistic Joke. A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School.
Frontispiece.
My Studio during the Progress of "An Artistic Joke"
1
Harry Furniss's Royal Academy
3
Throwing myself into it
5
Fire!
6
The Pictures by R. Macbeth:
Potato Gang in the Fens;
Twitch-burning in the Fens;
A Flood in the Fens
8
Macbeth in the Fens
9
Letter from the President of the Royal Academy
11
"An Artistic Joke"
15
Mr. Sambourne's Prospectus
18
Cover of "How he did it"
20
Initial "T"
20
My Portrait. Frontispiece for "How he did it"
21
Harry Furniss and his "Lay Figure"
22
Letter from the President of the Royal Academy
25
Initial "I"
26
A "T—Tonic"
27
An Atlantic "Greyhound."
28
The Saloon of the Teutonic. The First Morning at Breakfast
30
At Queenstown—A Reminiscence
33
Bog-Oak Souvenirs
34
The Captain's Table
36
Not up in a Balloon
38
Chess
40
Mr. Lloyd and the Lady. "If you will sing, I will!"
42
The American Pilot—Ideal
43
The American Pilot—Real
43
The Health Officer comes on Board
45
Just in Time
46
"A Floating Flower Show"
47
The Bath Steward and the Bishop. "Your Time, Sir! Your Time!"
48
Americans and English on Deck
49
American Interviewing—Imaginary
52
American Interviewing—Real
53
"Sandy."
55
Chiropody
57
"New Trilby."
58
"Amiable Mr. Harry Furniss"
59
Major Pond
59
The Great Sarony
61
James B. Brown
63
Fire!
65
The Alarm
67
The Throne in the Senate
72
The Throne, House of Representatives
73
Initial "T"
74
The House of Representatives
75
An ex-Speaker
77
An ex-Minister
80
Anglophobia
82
The President—Ideal
83
The President—Real
83
Initial "A"
84
A Buffalo Girl
84
President Harrison's Reply
85
Mr. Punch at Niagara
86
Hebe
86
My Driver
87
Fra' Huddersfield
87
Niagara growing upon Me
88
I admire the great Horseshoe Fall
89
Jonathan harnessing Niagara
90
"The Three Sisters."
91
Inclined Railway, Niagara
92
Where Captain Webb was Killed
93
Tourists
94
American Travelling. Nothing to Eat
96
American Travelling. Nothing to Drink
97
Sleep(!)
100
A Washington Lady
102
A Lady Interviewer
104
A Sketch at "Del's"
105
Young America
106
An American Menu
107
My Portrait—in the Future
108
I am Entertained at the Twelfth Night Club
110
Reception at a Ladies' Club
112
Wife and Husband
113
A Dream of the White House
114
The Political Quartette
116
After the Great Parade: "Am I to sit on an ordinary seat to-night?"
120
Italians
123
Where the Deed was done!
125
"A Youth with a Crutch"
127
In an Opium Joint
128
"In His Own Black Art"
128
"Hitting the Pipe"
129
"Good-bye"
130
Initial "W"
131
Coaling
132
Quarantine
133
Initial "T"
134
Sleepy Hollow
135
Prospectors
138
Quarantine Island
141
I am invited to present myself
143
Landing at Adelaide
148
Pondicherry Vultures
150
The Maid of the Inn
150
The Way into Paradise
151
Paradise
151
Adam and Eve
152
A Type
153
Queen's Hall, London. I was the first to speak from the Platform
154
"Parliament by Day"
156
"Parliament by Night"
157
Miss Mary Anderson
159
Initial "By"
159
Giving My "Humours of Parliament" to the Nurses
162
Speaker Brand, afterwards Viscount Hampden
164
The Surprise Shirt
166
Discovered!
168
The Fly in the Camera
169
Late Arrivals
171
Reserved Seats
172
Chairman No. 1
174
Chairman No. 2
177
The Pumpkin—a Chestnut
178
In "The Humours of Parliament." Ballyhooley Pathetic
181
Harry Furniss as a Pictorial Entertainer
182
"Grandolph ad Leones." Reduction of a Page Drawing for Punch made by me whilst travelling by Train
185
Down with Dryasdust
189
From a Photo by Debenham and Gould
190
G. A. Sala
195
"Art Critic of the Daily Telegraph"
199
Counsel for the Plaintiff
200
Mr. F. C. Gould's Sketch in the Westminster, which Sala maintained was mine
200
Defendant
202
My Hat
202
The Plaintiff
203
The Editor of Punch supports me
203
Sir F. Lockwood and Myself
204
"Six Toes" Signature
205
The Sequel—I Distribute the Prizes at Nottingham
205
Initial "T"
206
The See-Saw Antic
207
The first P.R.A.
209
No Water-Colour or Black-and-White need apply
210
A National Academy
211
The Central Criminal Court. From Punch
215
"Thank Y-o-o-u!"
216
Regent's Park as it was. From Punch. A Rough Sketch on Wood
217
The Late Mr Bartlett
220
Sketch by Mr. F. C. Gould
223
The Lady and Her Snakes
226
Do Women fail in Art—The Chrysalis
228
The Butterfly
230
Early Victorian Art
232
Young Lady's Portrait of her Brother
233
Waiting
234
Initial "P"
235
Menu of the Dinner given to me by the Lotos Club, New York
237
Alderman—Ideal. Real
239
J. Whistler, after a City Dinner (Drawn with my Left Hand)
241
An Odd Volume
241
My Design for Sette of Odd Volumes
242
My Design (reduced) for the Dinner of Ye Red Lyon Clubbe
243
A Distinguished "Lyon"
243
Headpiece and Initial "S"
245
A Sound Money Dinner
249
A Sketch of Boulanger
251
Address of Boulanger's Retreat
252
A Note on My Menu
253
Remarkable and much-talked-of Lunch to me at Washington. The Autographs on back of Menu
254
Mr. Punch and his Dog Toby
256
A Memorandum in Pencil
258
Thirteen Club Banquet. The Table Decorations
259
Mr. W. H. Blanch
260
The Broken Looking-Glass
261
The Badge
261
Squint-Eyed Waiter
263
Coffins, Sir!
266
"The Chairman will be Pleased to Spill Salt with You." From the St. James's Budget
267
A Knife I was Presented with
268
Tailpiece
271
"Au Revoir"
280
CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST.
CHAPTER VIII. THE ARTISTIC JOKE.
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CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST.
CHAPTER VIII. THE ARTISTIC JOKE.
MY STUDIO DURING THE PROGRESS OF "AN ARTISTIC JOKE."
The First Idea—How it was Made—"Fire!"—I am a Somnambulist—My Workshop—My Business "Partner"—Not by Gainsborough—Lord Leighton—The Private View—The Catalogue—Sold Out—How the R.A.'s Took It—How a Critic Took It—Curious Offers—Mr. Sambourne as a Company Promoter—A One-man Show—Punch's Mistake—A Joke within a Joke—My Offer to the Nation.
"In the year 1887 he startled the town and made a Society sensation by means of an exceedingly original enterprise which any man of less audacious[Pg 2] and prodigious power of work would have shrunk from in its very inception. For years this Titanic task was in hand. This was his celebrated 'artistic joke,' the name given by the 'Times' to a bold parody on a large scale of an average Royal Academy Exhibition. This great show was held at the Gainsborough Gallery, New Bond Street, and consisted of some eighty-seven pictures of considerable size, executed in monochrome, and presenting to a marvelling public travesties—some excruciatingly humorous and daringly satirical, others really exquisite in their rendering of physical traits and landscape features—of the styles, techniques, and peculiar choice of subjects
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