HARRY

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

In 1905 he published How to draw in

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