Harry Furniss
Harry Furniss (26 March 1854 – 14 January 1925) was a British illustrator. He established his career on the
Biography
Although Furniss was born in Wexford, Ireland, he identified himself as English, his father being English and his mother Scottish. He was educated at Dublin's
His first job as an illustrator was for the
One boat race, for example, is very much like another. Some years ago I executed a panoramic series of sketches of the University Race from start to finish, and as they were urgently wanted, the drawings had to be sent in the same day. Early in the morning, before the break of fast, I found myself at Putney, rowing up to Mortlake, taking notes of the different points on the way — local colour through a fog. Getting home before the Londoners started for the scene, I was at work, and the drawings — minus the boats — were sent in shortly after the news of the race.
After some years Furniss moved to The Graphic, initially writing and illustrating a series of supplements titled "Life in Parliament", and he comments that "from this time forward it would be difficult to name any illustrated paper with which I have not at sometime or other been connected".
His most famous humorous drawings were published in
He illustrated
In 1890, he illustrated the Badminton Library's volume on Golf.
On leaving Punch Furniss brought out his own humorous magazine Lika Joko, but when this failed he moved to America where he worked as a writer and actor in the fledgling film industry and where, in 1914, he pioneered the first animated cartoon film for Thomas Edison.
His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and a further volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.
Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including Some Victorian Men and Some Victorian Women and illustrated thirty-four works by other authors, including the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
On some projects, like his illustrations for G. E. Farrow's Wallypug books, Furniss collaborated with his daughter, fellow artist Dorothy Furniss (1879–1944).[1]
Furniss married Marian Rogers in the Strand in 1877.[2]
Bibliography
Written and illustrated by Harry Furniss
- Royal Academy, an artistic joke — 1887
- Royal Academy antics — 1890
- M.P.'s in Session — 1889
- Australian Sketches- Made on Tour — 1899
- The Confessions of a Caricaturist — 1901
- Harry Furniss At Home — 1904
- Some Victorian Women - Good, Bad, and Indifferent — 1923
- Some Victorian Men — 1924
- The Two Pins Club — 1925
Works illustrated by Harry Furniss
- Romps with verses by Horace Lennard, printed by Edmund Evans — 1885
- Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll — 1889
- Brayhard, The Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions — 1890
- Sylvie and Bruno Concludedby Lewis Carroll — 1893
- The Wallypug of Why by G. E. Farrow; 1895
- Gamble Gold by Judge Edward Abbott Parry — 1907
- Charles Dickens Library by Charles Dickens — 1910
- Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; 1885
- A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886-1892 by Henry W. Lucy; 1892
References
- ^ Caroline Sigler, ed., Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books, Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1997; p. 243.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 December 2010."Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
Further reading
- Furniss, Harry (1901). The confessions of a caricaturist. Unwin. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- Furniss, Harry (1904). Harry Furniss at home. T. F. Unwin. Retrieved 17 May 2011.