Biography Harry Furniss

furniss s caricature of william ewart gladstone

after years furniss moved graphic, writing , illustrating series of supplements titled life in parliament , , comments time forward difficult name illustrated paper have not @ sometime or other been connected .

his famous humorous drawings published in punch, started working in 1880, , contributed on 2,600 drawings. left punch in 1894 when owners discovered had sold 1 of punch drawings pears soap use in advertising campaign.

he illustrated lewis carroll s novel sylvie , bruno in 1889 , sylvie , bruno concluded in 1893. carroll , furniss produced both pictures , text simultaneously. carroll exerted strong control on furniss illustration, such extent furniss pretend out when carroll called @ home. after completing sylvie , bruno concluded furniss vowed never work author again.

in 1890, illustrated badminton library s volume on golf.

on leaving punch furniss brought out own humorous magazine lika joko, when failed moved america worked writer , actor in fledgling film industry , where, in 1914, pioneered first animated cartoon film thomas edison.

his two-volume autobiography, titled confessions of caricaturist published in 1902, , further volume of personal recollections , anecdotes, harry furniss @ home, published in 1904.

furniss wrote , illustrated twenty-nine books of own, including victorian men , victorian women , illustrated thirty-four works other authors, including complete works of charles dickens , william makepeace thackeray.

on projects, illustrations g. e. farrow s wallypug books, furniss collaborated daughter, fellow artist dorothy furniss (1879–1944).

furniss married marian rogers in strand in 1877.