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[Illustration: MY CARICATURE OF MR. GLADSTONE.]


                             THE

                CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST

                             BY

                        HARRY FURNISS

                        _ILLUSTRATED_


                          VOLUME I

[Illustration]


NEW YORK AND LONDON:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

1902.




BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS

LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

[_All rights reserved._]

December, 1901.




                               PREFACE.


If, in these volumes, I have made some joke at a friend's expense, let
that friend take it in the spirit intended, and--I apologise beforehand.

In America apology in journalism is unknown. The exception is the
well-known story of the man whose death was published in the obituary
column. He rushed into the office of the paper and cried out to the
editor:

"Look here, sur, what do you mean by this? You have published two
columns and a half of my obituary, and here I am as large as life!"

The editor looked up and coolly said, "Sur, I am vury sorry, I reckon
there is a mistake some place, but it kean't be helped. You are killed
by the _Jersey Eagle_, you are to the world buried. We nevur correct
anything, and we nevur apologise in Amurrican papers."

"That won't do for me, sur. My wife's in tears; my friends are laughing
at me; my business will be ruined,--you _must_ apologise."

"No, si--ree, an Amurrican editor nevur apologises."

"Well, sur, I'll take the law on you right away. I'm off to my
attorney."

"Wait one minute, sur--just one minute. You are a re-nowned and popular
citizen: the _Jersey Eagle_ has killed you--for that I am vury, vury
sorry, and to show you my respect I will to-morrow find room for you--in
the births column."

Now do not let any editor imagine these pages are my professional
obituary,--my autobiography. If by mistake he does, then let him place
me immediately in their births column. I am in my forties, and there is
quite time for me to prepare and publish two more volumes of my
"Confessions" from my first to my second birth, and many other things,
before I am fifty.

[Illustration: Faithfully yours
                         Harry Furniss]

LONDON, 1901.

     [The Author begs to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Proprietors
     and the Editor of _Punch_, the Proprietors of the _Magazine of Art_,
     the _Graphic_, the _Illustrated London News_, _English Illustrated
     Magazine_, _Cornhill Magazine_, _Harper's Magazine_, _Westminster
     Gazette_, _St. James' Gazette_, the _British Weekly_ and the _Sporting
     Times_ for their kindness in allowing him to reproduce extracts and
     pictures in these volumes.]




                                 CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER I.

  CONFESSIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD--AND AFTER.

  Introductory--Birth and Parentage--The Cause of my remaining a
   Caricaturist--The Schoolboys' _Punch_--Infant Prodigies--As a
   Student--I Start in Life--_Zozimus_--The Sullivan
   Brothers--Pigott--The Forger--The Irish "Pathriot"--Wood
   Engraving--Tom Taylor--The Wild West--Judy--Behind the
   Scenes--Titiens--My First and Last Appearance in a Play--My Journey to
   London--My Companion--A Coincidence                     _pp._ 1-29


  CHAPTER II.

  BOHEMIAN CONFESSIONS.

  I arrive in London--A Rogue and Vagabond--Two Ladies--Letters of
   Introduction--Bohemia--A Distinguished Member--My Double--A Rara
   Avis--The Duke of Broadacres--The Savages--A Souvenir--Portraits of
   the Past--J. L. Toole--Art and Artists--Sir Spencer Wells--John
   Pettie--Milton's Garden                                 _pp._ 30-53


  CHAPTER III.

  MY CONFESSIONS AS A SPECIAL ARTIST.

  The Light Brigade--Miss Thompson (Lady Butler)--Slumming--The Boat
   Race--Realism--A Phantasmagoria--Orlando and the Caitiff--Fancy Dress
   Balls--Lewis Wingfield--Cinderella--A Model--All Night Sitting--An
   Impromptu Easel--"Where there's a Will there's a