CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 by Harry Furniss The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2), by Harry Furniss This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Author: Harry Furniss The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 by Harry Furniss 1 Release Date: September 20, 2007 [EBook #22689] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARICATURIST *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: AN ARTISTIC JOKE. A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School.] THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST BY HARRY FURNISS ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. 1902. BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS, LONDON AND TONBRIDGE. All rights reserved. December, 1901. CONTENTS. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 by Harry Furniss 2 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 VIII. 3 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-à-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 IX. 4 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 X. 5 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 XI. 6 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 XII. 7 CHAPTER XIII. THE CONFESSIONS OF A DINER. My FirstCity 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 XIII. 8 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 [Illustration: HARRY FURNISS'S (EGYPTIAN STYLE). 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 CHAPTER XIV. 9 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 CHAPTER XIV. 10 [...]... "T" 20 6 The See-Saw Antic 20 7 The first P.R .A 20 9 No Water-Colour or Black-and-White need apply 21 0 A National Academy 21 1 The Central Criminal Court From Punch 21 5 "Thank Y-o-o-u!" 21 6 Regent's Park as it was From Punch A Rough Sketch on Wood 21 7 The Late Mr Bartlett 22 0 Sketch by Mr F C Gould 22 3 The Lady and Her Snakes 22 6 Do Women fail in Art The Chrysalis 22 8 The Butterfly 23 0 Early Victorian Art... use of these appliances, and the small area caused by this is the only space in the yards and yards of table unencumbered by the "fiddles." The Captain scorns the aid of such mechanical contrivances, and chatters away unconcerned, gracefully balancing his soup-plate in his hands the while I followed his example as one to the manner born, but had I not been a bit of an amateur conjuror I am afraid that... with some attraction of the passing hour, must "boom his show for all it's worth," as the Americans say; so I "boomed" my "Artistic Joke" with an advertising joke, and at the same time parodied another branch of art the art of advertising the artists, by a special number of a magazine devoted to the work of an Academician The special numbers, generally published at Christmas, are familiar and interesting... Initial "S" 24 5 A Sound Money Dinner 24 9 A Sketch of Boulanger 25 1 Address of Boulanger's Retreat 25 2 A Note on My Menu 25 3 Remarkable and much-talked -of Lunch to me at Washington The Autographs on back of Menu 25 4 Mr Punch and his Dog Toby 25 6 A Memorandum in Pencil 25 8 Thirteen Club Banquet The Table Decorations 25 9 Mr W H Blanch 26 0 The Broken Looking-Glass 26 1 The Badge 26 1 Squint-Eyed Waiter 26 3 Coffins,... when the hangman awakes him on the fatal morning, and I had to explain to the bath steward that we had changed berths, and that in future No 2 was to be awakened instead of No 1 Perhaps it is not generally known that suicide is nearly as prevalent as mal de mer amongst these Americans who are rushing over for a few weeks' repose They work at such a fearful rate, slaves to that insatiable god the almighty... her family in the Far West The skipper's seat is vacant at breakfast time, and should the weather be rough, at the other meals also If the elements are very boisterous, the "fiddles" are screwed on to the tables, and on them a lively tune is played by the jingling glasses and rattling cutlery to the erratic beating of the Atlantic wave The Captain's right and left hand neighbours are exempt from the. .. drawing!" Having parodied the artists' work, the R .A catalogue, and the publishers' R .A special numbers, I went one step further I parodied "Art Patrons." At that time there was a great stir in art circles in consequence of the authorities of the National Gallery dallying with Mr Tate's offer of his pictures to the nation; so to emulate him, and Mr Alexander, and Mr Watts, and other public benefactors... nothing about it until the announcement that Mr Furniss had his own private Royal Academy appeared in the 'Times.' He worked in secret at intervals, under a heavy strain, to get the Exhibition ready, particularly as he had to manage the whole of the business part; for the show at the Gainsborough Gallery was entirely his own speculation Granted that the experiment was daring, yet the audacity of the artist... dollar, that eventually they either have to fly to a lunatic asylum or an Atlantic liner After a day or two on the latter the calm and repose and the vast sea around them prove too much of an antidote; the overtaxed brain gives way, and overboard they go An Englishman is too fond of exercise to allow high CHAPTER IX 36 pressure to get the better of him in this way, and the difference between English and... for a framed type of beauty I was, however, not satisfied until I had examined the picture in question closely and honestly in the full light of day, when I saw that Mr Slapdash, R .A. , had sold his autograph and a soiled canvas in lieu of a portrait to my rich but too easily pleased friend As I walked back into the drawing-room, one of the musical humorists of the day was cleverly taking off the weak . www.gutenberg.org Title: The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Author: Harry Furniss The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 by Harry Furniss 1 Release Date: September 20 , 20 07 [EBook #22 689] Language:. Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 by Harry Furniss The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) , by Harry Furniss This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no. 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