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FURNISS, HARRY (1854– )

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FURNISS, HARRY (1854– ) , See also:British caricaturist and illustrator, was See also:born at See also:Wexford, See also:Ireland, of See also:English and Scottishparents. He was educated in See also:Dublin, and in his schooldays edited a Schoolboy's See also:Punch in See also:close See also:imitation of the See also:original. He came to See also:London when he was nineteen, and began to draw for the illustrated papers, being for some years a See also:regular contributor to the Illustrated London See also:News. His first See also:drawing in Punch appeared in 188o, and he joined its See also:staff in 1884. He illustrated See also:Lucy's " See also:Diary of Toby, M.P.," in Punch, where his See also:political caricatures became a popular feature. Among his other successes were a See also:series of " See also:Puzzle Heads," and his See also:annual " Royal See also:Academy See also:guy'd." In Royal Academy Antics (1890) he published a See also:volume of caricatures of the See also:work of leading artists. He resigned from the staff of Punch in 1894, produced for a See also:short See also:time a weekly comic See also:paper Lika Joko, and in 1898 began a humorous monthly, See also:Fair See also:Game; but these were short-lived. Among the numerous books he illustrated were See also:James See also:Payn's Talk of the See also:Town, See also:Lewis See also:Carroll's Sylvie and See also:Bruno, See also:Gilbert a Beckett's Comic See also:Blackstone, G. E. Farrow's Wallypug See also:Book, and his own novel, Poverty See also:Bay (1005). Our Joe, his See also:great Fight (1903), was a collection of original cartoons. His volume of reminiscences, Confessions of a Caricaturist (1901), was followed by Harry Furniss at See also:Home (1904).

In 1905 he published How to draw in See also:

Pen and See also:Ink, and produced the first number of Harry Furniss's See also:Christmas Annual.

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