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HARRY See also:FURNISS (1854– )
, See also:British caricaturist and illustrator, was See also:born at See also:Wexford, See also:Ireland, of See also:English and Scottishparents
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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
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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
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His first See also:drawing in Punch appeared in 188o, and he joined its See also:staff in 1884
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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
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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
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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
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Among the numerous books he illustrated were See also: 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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