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In the year 1887 he startled the town and made a Society sensation by means of an exceedingly original enterprise which any man of less audacious and prodigious power of work would have shrunk from in its very inception. For years this Titanic task was in hand. This was his celebrated 'artistic joke,' the name given by the 'Times' to a bold parody on a large scale of an average Royal Academy Exhibition. This great show was held at the Gainsborough Gallery, New Bond Street, and consisted of some eighty-seven pictures of considerable size, executed in monochrome, and presenting to a marvelling public travesties--some excruciatingly humorous. | The Confessions of a Caricaturist Vol 2 by Harry Furniss 1 CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. The Confessions of a Caricaturist Vol 2 by Harry Furniss The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Confessions of a Caricaturist Vol 2 of 2 by Harry Furniss This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Confessions of a Caricaturist Vol 2 of 2 Author Harry Furniss The Confessions of a Caricaturist Vol 2 by Harry Furniss 2 Release Date September 20 2007 EBook 22689 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARICATURIST Produced by Juliet Sutherland Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration AN ARTISTIC JOKE. A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School. THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST BY HARRY FURNISS ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II Illustration NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS. 1902. BRADBURY AGNEW CO. LD. PRINTERS LONDON AND TONBRIDGE. All rights reserved. December 1901. CONTENTS. CHAPTER VIII. 3 CHAPTER VIII. THE ARTISTIC JOKE. The First Idea--How it was Made-- Fire --I am a Somnambulist--My Workshop--My Business Partner --Not by Gainsborough--Lord Leighton--The Private View--The Catalogue-Sold Out--How the . s Took It--How a Critic Took It--Curious Offers--Mr. Sambourne as a Company Promoter--A One-man Show-Punch s Mistake--A Joke within a Joke--My Offer to the Nation pp. .