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See also:TENNIEL, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (182o- ) , See also:English humorous and satirical artist—specially identified with See also:Punch—was See also:born in See also:London in 182o. He educated himself for his career, and although he became a probationer, and then a student, of the Royal See also:Academy, he soon See also:left the See also:schools, where at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time there was little teaching. In 1836 he sent his first picture to the See also:exhibition of the Society of See also:British Artists, and in 1845 contributed a 16-ft. See also:cartoon, " An See also:Allegory of See also:Justice," to the competition, held in that See also:year, of designs for the mural decoration of the new See also:Palace of See also:Westminster. For this he received a £20o See also:premium and a See also:commission to paint a See also:fresco in the Upper Waiting See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (or " Hall of Poets ") in the See also:House of Lords. In spite of his tendency towards " high See also:art," he was already known and appreciated as a humorist, and his See also:early companionship with See also:Charles See also:Keene fostered and See also:developed his See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for scholarly See also:caricature. At See also:Christmas time 185o he was invited by See also:Mark See also:Lemon to fill the position of See also:joint cartoonist (with John See also:Leech) on Punch, from which See also:Richard See also:Doyle, offended by the attitude adopted by the See also:paper towards the Papal see at the time of the so-called " aggression," had suddenly resigned. On the strengtL of his remarkable illustrations to See also:Aesop's Fables, in which See also:artistic See also:power, See also:humour of observation, and knowledge of See also:animal See also:life were equally apparent, Tenniel was selected, on See also:Douglas See also:Jerrold's initiative, to fill the See also:breach, and he contributed his first See also:drawing in the initial See also:letter appearing on p. 224, vol. xix. His first " cartoon " was " See also:Lord See also:Jack the See also:Giant Killer ": it showed Lord John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell, whose letter on the " aggression " had recently been published, valiantly assailing with the See also:sword of truth and See also:liberty See also:Cardinal See also:Wiseman armed with a See also:crozier. In 1852 we find Tenniel's first superb See also:lion, and his first obituary cartoon. Gradually he took over altogether the weekly drawing of the See also:political " big cut," which John Leech was happy to resign into his hands in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to restrict himself to, his pictures of life and See also:character. Leech's See also:work consisted for the most See also:part of See also:farce; Tenniel's was high See also:comedy, and not infrequently tragedy; and the freedom of the humorist heightened the severer beauties of the satirist. When Leech died his friend continued his work alone, and except in 1864, 1868, and 1875-6-7-8, during See also:short spells of illness or See also:holiday, he did not See also:miss a single See also:week. About 2300 cartoons, innumerable See also:minor drawings, See also:double-See also:page cartoons for Punch's See also:Almanac and other See also:special See also:numbers, and 25o designs for Punch's See also:Pocket-books, comprise the sum of Sir John Tenniel's work for the periodical in the service of which he spent the greater portion of his life. When Tenniel retired from the service of Punch in See also:January 1901 he received the See also:honour of a farewell banquet (12th See also:June), at which Mr A. J. See also:Balfour, then See also:leader of the House of See also:Commons, presided, and was supported by distinguished representatives of all that was best in English life. On that occasion Mr Balfour's description of Tenniel as " a See also:great artist and a great See also:gentleman " was applauded by the See also:press of the whole See also:country.
The See also:main quality of Sir John Tenniel's work is accuracy of drawing, precision of See also:touch, See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and dignity of conception, and—so far as such things can be compatible geniality of See also:satire. Tenniel raised
the political cartoon into a classic See also:composition, from which a sense of See also:nobility is rarely absent. The beauty and statuesqueness of his ideal figures recall the See also:influence, perhaps, of See also:Cornelius and See also:Overbeck—that See also:German manner which was characteristic of many of our finer draughtsmen upon See also:wood at the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century. But Tenniel's work is always See also:original, unforced and fresh; and it never suggests, what is the fact, that the artist's work is See also:drawn exclusively from memory, and never from the See also:model. It may bementioned that Tenniel's wonderful observation has been conducted, and his knowledge accumulated, literally through a single See also:eye, the other having been lost during a See also:fencing bout In his youth. It was in recognition not only of his ability as an artist in See also:black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, but of his service in infusing See also:good humour and good See also:taste into one phase of political life, that a See also:knighthood was conferred upon him on Mr See also:Gladstone's recommendation in 1893. Without pronounced political opinions of his own, Sir John Tenniel adopted In his work those of his paper, of which the Whig proclivities were to some degree softened by his See also:pencil. The political See also:history not of See also:England only, but to some extent of the See also:world, of See also:half a century appears in Sir John Tenniel's weekly cartoons, which are dignified by a number of types invented by the artist, the classic beauty of which may he looked for in vain in kindred work by any previous cartoonist. (Take, for example, Sir John's famous picture of " Dropping the See also:Pilot," which appeared in Punch on loth See also:March 1890, xcviii. 150–51.) Public exhibitions of Sir John Tenniel's work were held in 1895 and in 1900. Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, " Leonardo da See also:Vinci," in the See also:South See also:Court in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum; while his highly stippled See also:water-See also:colour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal See also:Institute of Painters in Water See also:Colours, of which society he was elected a member in 1874. As an illustrator on the wood-See also:block he stands very high; his " Lalla Rookh" is perhaps the finest of all his work in point of conception, refinement, power and technical excellence.
End of Article: TENNIEL, SIR JOHN (182o- )
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