(Splendid Collection of Parliamentary Portraits, mostly done by "The Other Fellows." The Speaking Likenesses speak for themselves and for the Artists.)
PALMERSTON, LORD (Apr. 29, '82) 65 PARKER, C. S. (July 30, '87) 10 PARNELL, CHAS. S. (Dec. 5, '85) Frontisp. " (June 30, '83) 57 " (July 7, '83) 19 " (Aug. 4, '88) 60 PEEL, SIR ROBERT (Apr. 29, '82) 65 PEEL, SIR ROBERT (3rd Bart.) (July 25, '85) 5 " " (Oct. 30, '86) 31 PEEL, RT. HON. A. W. (June 9, '83) 57 " " (Nov. 1, '84) 1 " " (Feb. 12, '87) 66 " " (Aug. 27, '87) 2 PELLY, SIR LEWIS (Aug. 11, '88) 56 PICKERSGILL, E. H. (Aug. 13, '87) 34 PICTON, J. A. (Mar. 26, '87) 34 PLAYFAIR, RT. HON. SIR LYON (Mar. 12, '87) 32 POTTER, T. B. (Apr. 7, '88) 54 PUGH, DAVID (Aug. 28, '86) 25 PYNE, J. D. (Feb. 18, '88) 51
SAMUELSON, SIR B. (Apr. 16, '87) 38 SAUNDERSON, COL. E. J. (July 7, '88) 62 SCHWABE, COL. G. SALIS- (June 5, '86) 22 SEXTON, THOMAS (Apr. 23, '87) 35 SHAW, THOMAS (May 19, '88) 52 SHUTTLEWORTH, SIR U. J. KAY- (Mar. 24, '88) 10 SIMON, SIR J. (May 5, '88) 55 SMALL, J. F. (Sept. 10, '87) 46 SMITH, S. (July 2, '87) 44 SMITH, RT. HON. W. H. (Dec. 5, '85) Frontisp. " " (June 9, '83) 57 " " (July 28, '83) 23 " " (Aug. 18, '83) 64 " " (July 4, '85) 9 " " (Feb. 6, '86) 18 " " (Oct. 23, '86) 30 " " (Feb. 12, '87) 66 " " (Apr. 23, '87) 36 SPENCER, HON. C. R. (Mar. 17, '83) 48 " " (Feb. 27, '86) 16 " " (May 26, '88) 52 SPICER, HENRY (Aug. 21, '86) 28 STANSFELD, RT. HON. JAMES (Apr. 10, '86) 21 STRONG, RICHARD (Oct. 30, '86) 26 SULLIVAN, T. D. (Apr. 9, '87) 35 SYKES, CHRISTOPHER (Apr. 3, '86) 13 " " (Apr. 2, '87) 37
VIVIAN, SIR HUSSEY (Apr. 30, '87) 25
HARRY FURNISS's ROYAL ACADEMY.
An Artistic Joke.
The Exhibition consisted of eighty-seven pictures, in black and white of course, but otherwise similar in size and general appearance to those annually seen on the walls of Burlington House. Anyone who visited it must have seen that it was the result of many years of labour, and not a few of the pictures possessed an artistic value quite apart from their interest as pictorial travesties. A wish has been very generally expressed that some permanent record, in a portable shape, but in character consonant with the artistic purpose of the Exhibition, should be procurable by the public at large, both those who saw and those who did not see the originals at the Gainsborough Gallery and elsewhere.
To meet this wish an #ALBUM#, containing Reproductions of these #EIGHTY-SEVEN PICTURES#, with which will be included the contents of #THE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE#, has been prepared and largely subscribed for. The issue of these Albums, however, which will be the only reproductions of the Exhibition, is strictly limited to #ONE THOUSAND COPIES#, each of which will be signed by the Artist.
It may be mentioned that the whole of this undertaking, from its conception to the present time, has been in Mr. Furniss's own hands. This has enabled Mr. Furniss scrupulously to maintain the artistic character of the whole enterprise. In the preparation of this Album he has spared no time or expense in trying reproductions by the different processes at home and abroad, similar to those used in the Album of the Royal Academy Pictures of 1886, and the annual reproductions of the French Salon. Not, however, being satisfied with any of these cheaper methods, he has, regardless of the great cost, adopted the finest method of photogravure--viz., the Photo Intaglio process of A. and C. Dawson, No. 3, Farringdon Street, and Hogarth Works, Chiswick, the reproductions being made under his own supervision. Each plate is hand-printed, and will in every way surpass, for artistic quality, anything of the kind ever published.
As PHOTOGRAVURE is the best and most faithful, as well as the most expensive method, this Album is certain to be valuable, and a worthy and complete memorial of the "Artistic Joke"; whilst the price charged will be only £3 3s., the same as fixed, originally, when the adoption of the cheaper process was contemplated.
The size of the Album is Imperial Quarto (11 by 15 inches); the plates range, on an average, from 4 × 6 to 7½ × 9 inches. The whole is handsomely and tastefully bound in cloth and gilt edged.
AFTER THE THOUSAND VERITABLE Édition de Luxe WERE PRINTED, THE PLATES WERE DESTROYED.
#The whole Edition is rapidly being exhausted and the price will be raised to FIVE Guineas in a few days#.
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#£3 3s. 6d.# (including case for packing).
"I HAVE NOW HIT UPON A VERY HAPPY THOUGHT."--Happy Thoughts.
#"Happy Thoughts" Birthday Book.#
Selected and Arranged from "Mr. Punch's" Pages
BY ROSIE BURNAND,
In 3 Volumes, price 10s. 6d. each, or in One Volume, price 28s.
"The genius of Leech has never been seen to greater advantage than in this gallery."--Morning Post.
"We doubt whether in the whole range of the literary or pictorial art of the period, the earlier portion of the Victorian era has been elsewhere so vigorously, so truthfully, as well as so humorously portrayed as in JOHN LEECH'S inimitable pictures. The series has an importance beyond the amusement of the moment--it serves both to commemorate the genius of the artist and the character of the age."--Country Gentleman.
