Search the Collection 266 Portraits in set: Prominent men:
drawings by Harry Furniss, circa 1880-1910 By the time Harry
Furniss moved to London from Dublin in 1873, he had already
embarked upon a career as an illustrator, having submitted
cartoons to Zozimus, the Irish version of Punch. He made his way
quickly as a caricaturist and illustrator in London and after
three years he graduated to the Illustrated London News, where
he worked as a special artist producing pictures of topical
interest. Alison Opyrchal notes that Furniss recognized the
importance of bohemian clubs soon after his arrival in London,
when he discovered that the editors, proprietors and journalists
of his first newspaper were not to be found in their offices,
but in their smoky club room in the Strand.  He joined several
of these clubs himself, including the Savage and the Garrick,
and found the opportunity to produce very lively and humorous
caricatures of his fellow clubmen. Perhaps the best-known set of
these drawings was eventually pub